It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.
There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.
Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.
It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down.
My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.
What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
Many times, the Senate talks of things and never gets anything through.
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.