Only a leftist thinks the Congress is ill-performing in terms of not sending more new laws to the President’s desk. We sent this Congress and now this Senate to stop all the non-sense.
Now, they are ill-performing in terms of allowing the executive branch to ride roughshod over them and fund laws he created out of thin air, but that’s never what the media means when they say congress is broken.
“In 1778, after Alexander Hamilton had spent one year on the personal staff of George Washington, and less than two years after the forming of the First Continental Congress, he wrote a letter to Washington lamenting the character of the American Congress. Hamilton was an advocate for a strong central government. Here read the beginnings of his federalist argument:”
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Hamilton was many things unfit to print!
Jefferson, Hamilton’s opposite, was the model of a true conservative-libertarian...later, Reagan, Taft, Goldwater, and few others came somewhat close!
Dick.G: AMERICAN!
aka: GyG
Semper FIDELIS
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The only “performance” I want to see out of any Congress — is the systematic dismantling of the Federal Nanny state.
Hamilton/Washington rightly blamed an ineffective government for the material deficiencies and horrible sufferings of the Continental Army.