Quote Originally Posted by Logic1 View Post
My guess about the vote gotten turned down is the "small fact" that there is an election in November and who wants to take a hard decision that half of his/her voters will hate? That sure is a great way to kill your chances in the upcoming elections.
That's a good guess -- and one of the things wrong with politics today.

Politicians and voters don't seem to understand that the elected official isn't there to just do whatever the majority of his constituents wants -- if that was the case, we wouldn't need them, we'd just vote on everything. That's pure democracy and it's bad. Their role is supposed to be using their knowledge and best judgment to represent their constituency -- and sometimes that includes making a hard, unpopular choice. If more voters could accept that, instead of getting all pissy that their rep didn't vote the way "most" people wanted him to, then we'd have better representation and better government overall.