The primary constitutional role of the 535 members of the United States Congress is to legislate bills that will benefit their constituencies in particular and the American nation in general. Today, America faces the worst economy recession since the 1930s, millions of homeowners face foreclosures, 14 million Americans are jobless, 10 mill...ion Americans are underemployed, the unemployment rate stands at 9.1% and the nation carries a huge national debt of $14.5 trillion.
The Congress is so polarised, broken into pieces and heavily divided along party ideologies. Party loyalty, winning the mid-term elections, defeating Obama in the 2012 presidential election, protecting the top 1% of the richest Americans and the Corporations that caused the collapse of our national economy from paying their fair share in taxes are the primary goals of the Republican-led House of Representatives and the Republican senators in the House of Senate.
The elections of 2012 for both the Congress and the presidency will be primarily about the economy and jobs. At the present moment the approval rating of the Congress stands at 11% which is at its lowest in decades and 82% of Americans support tax increase on the rich and the corporations. Will many of these Congress members survive their re-election hurdles in 2012? Did Tea Party elements of the House Republican change Washington as they promised their supporters who voted them into power in 2010 or they divided and polarised Washington further? Time will surely tell in 2012.
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