Good points - maybe I worry excessively.
It would really be great if powerful people did checkout FR. IMO how easier to get an idea of the countrywide opinion of issues?
Of course, that assumes they want to know. Anyway - it is a lot more realistic than a poll.
Perhaps, but remember, people don't make laws, and neither do "lawmakers". Special interests and lobbyists make laws.
You really think GWB think most republicans want amnesty?
I would worry more if anyone cared what the public thought. But unless it's an election year, they don't ... and even then, they just worry about what "the independents" thinks because we all know how the party line "I won't throw my vote away" folks are going to vote.
They do. For instance, I know for a fact that Tony Snow posts to the daily Tony Snow thread.