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The U.S. Senate is broken. Shattered into a million pieces. The one-time World\u2019s Greatest Deliberative Body is now home to the world\u2019s most annoying political logjam.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not the bad news, according to CBS News \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d Nearly all the 22 incumbents up for re-election this year are favored to win another term.’<\/p>\n

The dysfunction will continue.<\/p>\n

\u201c60 Minutes\u201d conducted an interview Sunday with U.S. Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, the body\u2019s majority and minority leaders respectively. They call themselves \u201cfriends,\u201d but they act like they despise each other.<\/p>\n

Oh, for the days when Republicans and Democrats would reach across to each other, to work out deals in back rooms and then announce their compromises in public. Legislation got passed, the country moved forward.<\/p>\n

Reid took note of the more than 200 filibusters he has battled from the Republican minority during his time as majority leader. He said the late Lyndon Johnson, the one-time Democratic leader in the Senate, had to deal with exactly one filibuster during his time as leader. He implied his \u201cfriend\u201d McConnell is responsible for the obstruction.<\/p>\n

The interview with these two men suggests that nothing will get done in this political climate, no matter who wins the White House on Tuesday. If voters re-elect President Obama, which is looking more likely as the hours tick down, Republicans will be madder than ever that they couldn\u2019t defeat a president still struggling to correct the nation\u2019s economic course. And if Mitt Romney wins the election, imagine the fury Democrats will exact on his administration as he tries to get legislation enacted.<\/p>\n

Yep, the system is broken. I\u2019m beginning to like Sen. Tom Coburn\u2019s remedy, which he expresses in the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d broadcast. Throw every one of the senators up for re-election out of office and start over with new faces.<\/p>\n

Of course, it\u2019s easy for him to say. You see, Sen. Coburn \u2013 an Oklahoma Republican \u2013 isn\u2019t up for re-election this time around.<\/p>\n\n

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