Regardless of the specific roles of the House and Senate, they are there to serve we the people. Power flows from us to them, not from them to us.
Basically, the two parties have become one. There is one small part of the Republican party that has at least an appearance of supporting the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It is a given the entire Democratic Party is a lost cause, so there is really no need to discuss it. Since Reagan, the Republican Party has been transformed into a liberal, big government, tax and spend party. The two Bushes, McCain and Romney show the trend quite clearly.
One of the most clear illustrations of the establisment Republicans and those who support the Constitution are the two Senators from Kentucky. First, you have Mitch McConnell, the consumate politician who would sell his soul to a Democrat or the devil himself if it would get him reelected. He has no moral compass. He used every political trick in the book to try and defeat our second Senator in the primary, Rand Paul, a man with a love for the Constitution and moral bearing. Rand Paul won with 58% in the general election.
There is nothing I would like to see more than Mitch McConnell defeated by anyone in 2014. He is nothing but another piece of trash that has taken control of the Republican Party. Him staying in office does this nation no good, and for all the good he has done, it might as well be a liberal Democrat.
