The Atlantic: Alex Roarty- 'Can This Congress Be Saved?'

Source:The Atlantic- "President Barack Obama is applauded as he gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)NATIONAL JOURNAL." An inside look at one of the most expensive, inefficient, and overpaid institutions in the world: the United States Congress. But we only have the Americans voters to blame for that.

"Much of America prays Dan Boren is wrong. Parents worried about the threat of gun violence certainly hope he is. So do the roughly 11 million people who immigrated to America illegally and the deficit hawks who demand a grand budget bargain.

These men and women are depending on Washington, Republicans and Democrats, to come together and reach an agreement on the national agenda: gun violence, immigration, and the budget. But Boren, a retired House member from Oklahoma, doubts they'll end up satisfied. It's why he left Capitol Hill last year." 

From The Atlantic

To put it simply: the only way to make the United States Congress work which is still divided between Democrats and Republicans, with Democrats controlling the Senate with a bigger majority in this Congress, with the Republicans controlling the House, but with a smaller majority in this Congress, is going to have to come from the people. And they are finally going to have to not just say they don't like the current leadership and system that they are getting from both parties but actually do something about it. 

And this starts at the state level where the people say they are tired of the gerrymandering from both parties. And want more competitive House elections, so Representatives would actually have to run for reelection and not just win the primary to return to Congress. And that we get back to some type of regular order in Congress.