From Mitch McConnell calling his first priority to make Obama a one-term President to Republicans voting against their own proposals to keep Obama from accomplishing anything at all, Congress has deserved its 11% approval rating (worse than Qaddafi's just before his own people killed him). When venal careerists voted down background checks that 90% of the people wanted, it demonstrated a serious flaw in our system: that each state has two Senators, regardless of population. That lets a handful of sparsely populated red states stymie the will of the people. Things don't seem much different on a local level, either. In Michigan, the governor has effectively disenfranchis...