Voting for Anything

The U.S. Senate passing a bill earlier this week that neither side (right or left) really likes:

All this so they can say, “We did something!” —  whether they actually improve the lives of people or not (as if that was their job anyway).

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has often confronted Republicans on his show for criticizing Democrat health-care “reform” efforts while never acting to “reform” health care while they (Republicans) were in power. The following clip (at around 4:23) is one example of this:

His argument seems to be, “At least the Democrats are doing something.” Forget whether or not that “something” actually results in anything worthwhile or even affordable (In fact, forget the costs).

Is it possible that maybe all of this “doing” can cause more problems than simply doing nothing?