Posted on 05/16/2016 3:38:08 PM PDT by RetiredArmy
This stuff is despicable. Awful people are in the House and Senate. Oh I’m sure some are ok folks, but this stuff makes me nuts
Hard to believe . . .
Yup. I bet if we looked hard we could fine two or three good congresscritters out of the whole 500-plus mob on the Hill.
” in this world there are 3 kinds of people : the sheep , the wolves, and the sheepdogs “ Be the sheepdogs ......
98% of members of Congress are merely PROSTITUTES.
Broom them all!
Like brute beasts fit only to be destroyed-John Locke and KJV, 2 Peter.
I would take that bet.
There are a lot of people who think their guy is OK, and the rest are bad.
I know my Congressman. He taught high school. Now he’s a multi millionaire. Working for the people is clearly a good deal.
If the Congresscritter doesn’t reveal himself as far as I’m concerned he didn’t write the book. The claims being made could have been written by anyone with any knowledge of the past 20+ years.
Hell anyone on this forum could write that book and claim they were a member
Every one of them should be subjected to a random drug and alcohol test. That should take care of about 90% of them. Fail, and your toast!
F U B O!
I am to the point that, following the conceit of Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. - “I would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston phone directory than by the faculty of Harvard” - we should consider making Congress to be like jury duty. Establish some minimum standards for competence, select Congressmen via lottery from a pool of competent people able to read, write, and speak fluently - and pay them handsomely for strictly limited time.As it is now, there is no credible argument for Jimmy Carter’s campaign slogan, “Once and for all, why not the best.” Quite simply, we just do not elect superior people all that often. Certainly Jimmy Carter was not “the best;” with no experience at all I coulda beat that performance.
The novel called “The Politician” which was based on John Edwards and written by his former staffer came to basically the same conclusions. Basically political career was everything - nothing else remotely mattered and what’s more the Edwards character didn’t know anything else and certainly didn’t care.
I agree. Have not seen anything so far that is not generic common wisdom.
For starters, thanks to secure communications infrastructures and video teleconferencing developed for the Intelligence Community and DoD, there is no reason for Congresspeople to have to be in DC. They should not be allowed to leave their home districts or states while serving except on official National business—no partisan work, no fundraising or lobbyist meetings outside of their districts. Shut down the DC Capitol building and all the office space supporting it. It should be a sacrifice and actual service to the people they represent. If they don’t like that, don’t run for office.
The 17th amendment only dealt with the senate. I believe this story relates mostly with the House. I think the point of the story was to suggest that congress plays Americans for chumps.
Popularly derived senators play millions of people as dupes, which they would not get away with if appointed by a few hundred state legislators.
That may all be true, but I think the story dealt with Congressmen and there are four times as many of them.
He or she is no hero but still better than the majority of them for heing truthful.
Problem with all that you suggest is that THEY, those in Congress would have to write these laws and put them into effect. They are NOT about to do away with their own jobs. Nope, as much as we would like too, and great idea you have, the scum in Sodom on the Potomac is not going to take one step to do away with anything that might take one little jot and tittle away from their pie.
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