Let's cause some senators distress.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.
If the Senate can't perform its most basic responsibilities, I worry about how we're going to make the tough decisions and do the hard work that will be necessary to get our country on a path to fiscal solvency.
There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.
It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.
Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.
I've come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It's somebody that they can't put in a box and say, 'Oh, well, we know how this guy is going to vote.'
Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.
Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.
Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.