Today the two parties disagree with each other more frequently and more vigorously and forcefully than before. Party-based disagreements, policy stagnation, and paralysis stimulated by party rivalry seem to have become the norm instead of the exception (Ono, 2005). It appears that no one in Washington can get anything accomplished because of the political game playing that goes on. Everyone is so busy making everything a political issue that they can't seen how their lack of co-operation is truly hurting America. It seems that no one really wants to step up and lead. Everyone just wants to follow what others around them are doing. The farther apart that the two political parties get in their thinking the less that will ever be accomplished. Their main concerns should be the economy and the people of this country and not what the ideologies of Republican or Democratic party either one. This is a classic case of because we have always done things this way so we are going to continue to do them this way, even if they are not right and we know it. Congress and the President need to stop acting like second graders on the playground and begin acting like the adults that they are. They were elected by the people of this country to lead the country into prosperity, not into the ground. In order to do this they are going to have to stop adhering to old practices and ways and begin developing new ways of doing things. What they are doing now is not working and will never work no matter how long they keep trying to make it. It is time for a change. America was not built on preserving the status quo, if it had been we would still be under the control of England and...
The Constitution also provides that the Senate advise and consent on key executive and judicial appointments and on the ratification of treaties (Constitution of the United States, n.d.). But this does not appear to be what is happening. It appears that what determines whether a candidate to the Supreme Court is successful or not is based upon what political party is in charge. Instead of Senators doing their job of advising on key judicial appointments like that of Judge Sotomayor, they are playing the political lines. The candidates that are put before the Senate committee as ones who the current President feels will be accepted and approved by those who are currently on the committee. In the end it does not appear to have anything to do with their qualifications to be a Supreme Court judge but more with how they will be accepted by those on the committee. This is not the way that this power of advise and consent was intended to be carried out, but because of the political game playing that goes on today it is how it has ended up.
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