Posted on 08/01/2011 8:30:12 AM PDT by CedarDave
If members of Congress weren’t aware that many Americans think they’re worthless, surely they’re getting the message now.
How could they miss it? Fueled by the debt limit fiasco, a seething contempt for Congress is evident from Facebook pages in New Mexico to the streets outside the U.S. Capitol.
People aren’t just annoyed at Congress like they usually are; they’re flat-out disgusted.
The anger is directed at both parties, and the guy sitting in the White House isn’t immune.
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Speaking of the tea party, if anyone had any doubts about where Rep. Steve Pearce stands on this powerful new force in American politics, he cleared it up in a conversation with me Friday.
Pearce, a New Mexico Republican, said he is a member of an official tea party caucus in the U.S. House. His name wasn’t included on a list that tea party champion and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann posted on her U.S. House website last week, but Pearce said he is a member.
“I joined the tea party caucus in Congress,” Pearce said. “We campaigned heavily with them because I think they are a group of people who have it right. We’ve got to check the size of government, start cutting our spending and get our debt under control.”
Pearce was one of roughly 25 Republican holdouts on House Speaker John Boehner’s debt ceiling proposal last week. The speaker sweetened the pot by adding a balanced-budget amendment Friday, and Pearce said he grudgingly voted for it. He joked that he had been “getting a lot of attention” from House Republican leadership last week.
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I don't think Steve will have a hard time getting re-elected. In southern NM his support for both small business and energy-related industries (main provider of high paying jobs in his district) and opposition to more endangered species listings (especially for a little lizard that threatens oil and gas drilling here in SE NM) should make him an easy choice for re-election. Further, he should avoid getting into the US senate race to replace Jeff Bingaman. That race already has three Republicans jousting for position in next summers primary and he should stay out of it.
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Get out the Tar & Feathers!
Any gov’t that does NOT live under the same laws they foist on you, just became your MASTER, and you their SERF.
Place Congress and President under Medicare, 2 week vacations, and LIMIT the president, no matter what party to 1 vacation of 1 week per every 6 months, no entourage, only Secret Service, and minimal staff of no more than 10. And if they are multi-millionaires, they pay for their own personal parties, own clothes and jewels plus educating their children.
And their campaigns pay for the FULL use of Air Force 1 for campaign stops. No more of combining a ‘official’ visit, which is an actual campaign stop, so as to not have to cough up $ for the use of AF-1 for campaigning. Ditto goes for the Mrs. private use of gov’t planes.
All congress critters, even the Speakers of both house’s fly commercial like the rest of us slobs do.
This is the best opportunity for the Tea Party to become a third party. Tell the republicans “We’re taking over. You can come along with us doing things our way, with our speaker, or you can side with the democrats and have Pelosi as your speaker. And if you go with Pelosi, you KNOW we’ll primary your butt in every district.
Showing you that we know how to negotiate, take it or leave it. “
I wonder how things would change if most of those being elected to CONgress understood it was likely to be for 1 term?
My guess is the attempts to grab cash and fatten the representatives personal finances would be more brazen.
People always want to “throw the bums out”. But never they’re OWN bums, and that’s the only ones they have control over. Therefore, the same bums get re-elected over and over. And the bums know it.
LOL. Yuop opende up the oppurtunity for the seplling poliec ;-)
You wrote “grammer” (sic)
Should be “grammar”
Sorry, I cant’ hlep ,msyelf. (I’va had coffee)
most people are fed up with both parties.
I believe I saw a poll this morning that showed the majority of Americans don’t want the debt ceiling raised. (I’m not sure; it was a quick glimpse on the TV screen.) If that is true, then the Tea Party is going to kick ass in 2012.
We elect clowns, degenerates, decadents, imbeciles but they give the public what it demands-a gentle cash flow throughout the nation. With the flood of aliens the type of person elected will only worsen.
I believe that if there is a third party, the republicans will be the smallest of the three. Think of what happened to the Whigs in 1860.
And that is exactly what the Tea Partiers need to begin refocusing on today, identifying the next group and congressmen and senators to be defeated, and identifying the conservative candidates to support, not to mention the candidate to defeat Obama.
No one will ever get exactly what they want in the current debt/budget deficit fight and it has become a distraction. Conservatives should declare victory and move on to the next, far more important fights in the 2012 elections. That is the only real solution to the many problems the Dims will only make worse until out of power in Congress and the WH.
i agree,
but the dems and rino progressives both
have scammed the american electorate for 150 years.
it’s a staged drama with the usual, predictable results.
Indeed, people expect the drama. The breathless Media creatures screaming of the dire consequences of failing to raise the ceiling and the magic word “default” thrown about with abandon. Every Media creature counting the days as negotiations approach the supposed “deadline” building ever greater excitement. Winners losers revealed and dissected. You are right, it is all theater and the American people lose again!!!!
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