I was watching TV the other night and couldn't find anything on so I was channel surfing and happened to stumble across President Obama talking with the Republican caucus. It was interesting to listen to them talk. President Obama made some great points about how we need to stop fighting things just because they originate in the other party. He actually called out one of the republican congressmen who asked a question because instead of actually asking a productive question the congressman used the chance to talk as a chance to talk about his own agenda and bash the other party instead of making progress.
I definatly felt like that was a great point and allthough I haven't done justice in explaining it president Obama did a great job explaining it (and he wasn't even using a telepromter). One thing that President Obama didn't address was the examples from within his own party where the Democrats focus things on sticking to party lines instead of working to solve problems.
After watching this I realized that our politicians know the answers to a lot of our problems and the could solve the much more quickly and effectively then they do, but instead we have given them too many incentives not to work together. My question then is how to we create more incentives for them to work together then to disagree and fight?
