In "No Labels: A Shared Vision For A Stronger America," former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman (R-UT) and former Governor and current US Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) have set forth a vision for America and a path to get there. They challenge each of us (starting with Washington) both to turn our focus to the process of achieving shared national goals and to turn away from the politics of partisanship which increasingly has undermined any chance to advance the country's policy objectives.
Our political process has become a laughable national embarrassment. Over the last three decades we have allowed political posturing to swallow sound policy objectives. Making laws in Washington is giving sausage-making a bad name. Members of Congress look solely for momentary political street cred and care less and less about actually accomplishing something for the country. We have turned working across the aisle and compromise into dirty words as competing intransigent ideologies are fast becoming the death knell to passing legislation. The Congressional combatants merely move on to the next war of words while the rest of us suffer the consequences of their failure.
The health care debate of 2008-2010 is an unfortunate microcosm of what's wrong with Washington. One side primarily cared about passing a bill for the sake of winning, even if they had to pass it first to know what was in it. The other side sought only to defeat any health care bill and worse yet, to reject any "fixes" to improve the bill. All outside suggestions to facilitate real compromise were rejected by both sides. No fixing; just fighting. Neither side was on the side of everyday Americans.
Manchin and Huntsman are telling us enough is enough. In their book, they use a collection of personal accounts and reflections from political, business and other leaders to point the way for America to get its (government) act together: shared goals; commitment to collaborate and compromise for the common good; "fixing, not fighting." They have identified four issues critical to America's future (Jobs & Economy; Entitlement Reform; Debt & Deficit; and Energy) and have coupled them to measurable time-frame goals. The challenge is to rally our leaders to address these issues with a plan and a strategy.
No Labels, the group Huntsman and Manchin co-founded, was formed as a "citizen movement" to push our leaders to cut through the partisan gridlock to make government work--to promote a "new politics of problem solving." This group is all about getting everyday citizens (irrespective of party) engaged in the political process and focused on common goals while making it demonstrably comfortable for our legislators and leaders to actually work with (and not against) each other in order to forge the legislative solutions we so desperately need.
Reading this book is a good first step towards a better understanding of both the problems with government and the pathway to solving those problems. Anyone who believes that it is imperative that our leaders publicly and openly commit, to each other and the voters, to work together and embrace compromise should read this book. And we would be best off if our leaders in Washington began to practice what the book preaches.
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