I don't like the way congress works either, and if Obama can shake things up then more power to him. I don't think that's going to happen though. Congress prides itself on its ability to resist the president's influence. Having made so few political connections in his short stay in the Senate will only hamper his ability to change how the government operates. Far too many careers depend on the sleazy insider politics of the beltway for one man to be allowed to undo it all.
Besides, Obama will be too preoccupied with the bureaucracies of his own branch of government to be concerned with congress' back room dealings. Despite himself and his, I believe, genuine desire to change things for the better, he can't. Maybe he believes he can; maybe he should go back to being a community organizer, he'd be better at that.
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