Send more people to Congress? No, please, no  Posted Saturday,
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tip? Tell us    Those matters will now be passed on to a lame
duck session, which is rarely pretty or effective.  At a current
approval rating of around 13 percent, this Congress is among the
least popular in history, and rightly so. The terms do-nothing,
obstructionist and pathetically partisan all apply.  Regardless
of the outcome of the presidential election, I'm pessimistic
about the possibility of seeing any great change on Capitol
Hill. The constant bickering, deadlocked governance and
political one-upmanship are likely to linger for some time to
come, no matter which party is in power.  So what do we do to
shake things up in Washington, D.C.?  Oddly enough, on one of
the talking-head cable shows the other day, I heard part of a
discussion about whether we should increase the size of the
Congress so that each member of the House of Representatives
would represent fewer people. I