Opinion: What’s missing in Congress right now? Just leadership and courage
By Andrew Malcolm
Congress returns from another half-month vacation this week to confront a national job approval rating wallowing in the low double-digits. Hard to understand why it’s that high.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties have slipped into their own brand of do-nothing dysfunction. With the dearth – or death – of political moderates on Capitol Hill, each political party has strutted into its own distant ideological corner to utter daily talking points to rally its fervent faithful to no end whatsoever, fundraising aside.
This may have been understandable when Congress and the executive branch were controlled by separate parties with no incentive to get together and (whispering) “compromise” to earn their salaries of 172-grand a year.
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