[jwparkerjr]

I would like to see the total number votes we lost by across the nation in house and senate contests and then see that number as a percentage of the total votes cast in those elections. I suspect it would be a very depressing result. Had our leaders done ANYTHING in the last six years that would be considered governing as conservative the numbers would have been just the opposite. And before you go citing the two Supreme Court appointments, remember that we got those only after the Gang of 14 destroyed any chance we had of ridding America of the hell-based 60 vote majority needed for a judicial nomination. If the founders had wanted a super majority to be necessary to approve a nomination they would have said so.

Across the board, the largest problem I see is that we've let House and Senate rules come to trump the Constitution. The rules have been rigged for over two centuries now and they stand in the way of how the Founders set up our way of government.

[RKV]

"the Gang of 14 destroyed any chance we had of ridding America of the hell-based 60 vote majority needed for a judicial nomination" Yep. Damn it anyhow.

Thanks McCain. /sarcasm

[Tax-chick]

Had our leaders done ANYTHING in the last six years that would be considered governing as conservative the numbers would have been just the opposite.

I agree.