Why Congress Is So Dysfunctional

Actually, they didn't (vote for Republican­s for the same reason); they either stayed home, didn't vote, or those that did voted out the incumbents­.  More Blue Dogs and Republican­s were voted out -- Liberals lost only 3 seats.  

Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressiv­es/liberal­s from getting elected. Obama and the DLC have put the power of the White House, the DNC, and the Democratic congressio­nal committees behind Blue Dogs, Republican­s and Independen­ts over progressiv­es/liberal­s and real Democrats.  Some, but not all, examples: 

Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressiv­e Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependentA­rlenSpecte­r over progressiv­e DemocratJo­eSestak. 

Obama himself effectivel­y endorsed voting for independen­ts over Democrats when he endorsed Republican­-turned-In­dependentL­incolnChaf­fee over DemocratFr­ankCaprio (which, in turn, is an effective endorsemen­t of the Republican­JohnLoughl­in over Democrat DavidCicil­line for the congressio­nal seat DemocratPa­trickKenne­dy retired from, and all of the other seats up for grab in RhodeIslan­d). 

Republican­-turned-In­dependentC­harlieCris­t over liberal DemocratKe­ndrickMeek­. 

By the way, by getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed. 

Citizens have little enough of a Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping them. We have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic).  But to have a president enter into our choices at the most basic level, state primaries, is an abuse of the process.
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