[Tau Food]

IMHO, a large part of the reason we’re at the point we are now is a perception within the beltway that there will never be any serious repercussions from anything they do.

I see just the opposite. I believe that most of the folks in Congress are so fearful of "serious repercussions" (defined by them as being voted out of office) that they more or less do nothing. Most of them try hard to do nothing and that's because they fear loss of office.

[tacticalogic]

I see just the opposite. I believe that most of the folks in Congress are so fearful of "serious repercussions" (defined by them as being voted out of office) that they more or less do nothing. Most of them try hard to do nothing and that's because they fear loss of office.

Too much control and authority has been given over to the agencies and bureaucrats. They don't fear the electorate, because they aren't elected.