I'm quite shocked actually whenever the issue of the Senate blocking or refusing to pass legislation for a protracted period comes up, by the number of posters who seem to side comfortably with the Senate over the elected members of Parliament who sit in the House, and who answer directly to the citizenry. 

The only thing I can come up with to account for such an odd reversal of democratic allegiance, is that for a significant subset of the population, democracy isn't actually a concept they're particularly comfortable with...how else can one explain a willingness to turn over to unaccountable representatives, the power to govern unattached to the power of removal by the citizens being governed.