Congress returning to business as usual

With everyone still abuzz on whether or not President Obama plans to invade Syria has been the talk of the nation for the past few weeks, but Congress has started to deal with the domestic issues, like the proposed defunding of Obamacare. (Buzzfeed has done a great job explaining the situation, like only they can.) If any of you reading this aren't familiar with Buzzfeed, you should probably try and fix that. The website covers a variety of interests, from movies, politics, and debating over the redesigning of female super hero costumes (as you can see here).
Buzzfeed uses screenshots from the twitter account of Justin Amash, a Republican representative on what he thinks about the defunding of the proposed “Obamacare” saying “I do not support the #hocuspocus plan that defunds #Obamacare”. The video, coming from the popular movie “Zoolander” is Will Ferrell saying “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” was linked originally by a GOP aide, which they said accurately described Congress right now. This article has a lot of strengths, one of which being the use of social media like Twitter and Youtube to show that this has become a cross generational form of communication.

The article not only addresses how Congress has put aside the political differences to come to the consensus on what to do with Syria, but it also talks about how the government is trying to get back to its normal job of dealing with domestic issues, like the threatened defunding of “Obamacare”. The way that the extra forms of media work with the text makes it very easy to follow along with the article, and the comment section also comes with a place that you can rate the article, going on a system that is very specific to this website, which goes from “Epic!” to “Trashy” and “WTF”.

I feel that the article would work a little bit better would be if they included more statements from the people in Congress, or had a video showing that Congress was on the way back to dealing with domestic issues. At the same time, the informal feel the article has puts a new spin on the way that most people view politics, making it easier for someone younger to get a feel for the article. The other thing about the website in general is that it has the interesting and related links on both the bottom and the side of the page, giving you the option to click on them if you’re actually interested in reading them, but not being so large as to take away from the experience of the initial article.