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Wow...My jaw dropped when I heard this. The following are Bob Scheiffer's closing comments from this past Sunday's Face The Nation. Very well put, if I do say so myself.

Well, here we go again, another legislative deal, this time it was the immigration bill that has
collapsed. But as senators ran for the door on another two-week vacation, they promised to try to
work something out when they got back to town. How many times on how many issues have we heard
that? What happened in the Senate last week wasn't about immigration, it was about what's gone
wrong with Congress, which can't do much of anything anymore. Here is the main reason:
Our elected officials have lost the ability to compromise. In order to raise the money needed to get elected, they have to sign off with so many special interest groups before they get to Washington that their positions are set in stone long before they arrive at the Capitol. You don't get special interest money by promising to give the special interest
ideas a fair hearing and your best judgment, you get the money by promising to take their side
come hell or high water. So most of the debate is just time-wasting talk; no one's mind is
changed. Congress just nibbles around the edges of most issues, and nothing of significance gets done. Tomorrow, millions of people across America will take to the streets to demand
immigration reform, but don't expect Congress to do much on immigration. Don't expect it to do
much on anything. Our political system is so badly broken there's no longer very much that
Congress can do.