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Their constant election cycle really doesn't help any. Every 2 years they have a national election, and so every 2 years, they lose basically a year to campaigning, those years alternate between "everything fucking stops" and "some business continues"
Even now, with the pay roll tax cut, its election engineering. The republicans promised they wouldn't link 2 separate issues into a must pass bill-but did it anyway. It was too tempting not to link the pay roll tax cut and the keystone project.
Here...you want the tax cut for the minions in the middle class, that's fine but we want a decision on keystone. Either, you piss off the middle class or you piss off your environmental friends that form your base. Have fun! Or, you turn down the project, and we hammer you on jobs for a year.
Shit...NONE of this is about $1000 for working citizens, and all about "how do I keep my seat?"
I mean, we have fundamental flaws in our election system as well. Basically, we live in an elected dictatorship. The conservatives have a majority. Why does the opposition even show up?
But at least the campaigning stops for awhile.
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