More disunity needed in CongressBy Jay Ambrose
Published Oct. 10, 2016
Where's stalemate when we need it?
The other day, by a vote of 97-1 in the Senate and 348-77 in the House, Congress overrode President Barack Obama's veto of a bill that was almost wholly without merit, something availing us nothing but sacrificing a lot.
It nevertheless had great appeal. If you didn't like it, the voters would not like you, and so we had a barrage of bipartisan hugs like you could never imagine. It was not the kind of bipartisanship you want and certainly not democracy at its best.
The idea of a republic is that we vote for representatives whose political philosophy is similar to our own, who are competent and who have character. If disappointed in their performance, we vote them out of office. But these representatives do not serve us well when they vote a certain way to help their re-election chances even as they know they could be doing the nation harm.
No doubt, some of those voting in favor of this measure did think it was a good idea, but most had to know it was not. The measure would allow relatives of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack to sue the Saudi Arabian government on the assumption it colluded in what happened. To people who know little more than that, it might strike them as horrific that our government would not allow the lawsuits to take place....
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