Why does Congress listen to special interests more than voters? It's more than money.Yesterday I made a rather smart-alecky comment:"If donors are paying Senator Bill Frist $193,105 and the American tax-payers are paying him $175,700, it's not quite clear who he's working for." But really, that's not such a ... Leer más
A: Your Congressman is working for special interests and elections are the reason. We Americans are pretty proud of our democracy. While we didn't exactly invent the thing (that would the ancient Greeks and then the French philosophes), we are the first country in the modern world with an elected ... Leer más