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Rasmussen: 57% Would Like to Replace Entire Congress
Rasmussen Reports ^ | Aug 30, 2009 | Rasmussen

Posted on 08/30/2009 4:57:55 AM PDT by VRWCTexan

If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2009polls; 2010midterms; bhojobapproval; rasmussen
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To: VRWCTexan

I’d like to replace them with a damn house plant!


21 posted on 08/30/2009 5:18:28 AM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: VRWCTexan

It would be great if they would VOTE that way for a change. They usually vote the same old jerks in again.


22 posted on 08/30/2009 5:19:04 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: OCCASparky

I’m working to return my former congressman to office.


23 posted on 08/30/2009 5:20:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: VRWCTexan

If this is one of those rare instances where amateurs would do less damage, you have to wonder about the nature of the job. (Perhaps it’s to do damage?)


24 posted on 08/30/2009 5:21:30 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Rebellion is not brewing. Frog is brewing.)
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To: television is just wrong
The so called upcoming elections will see a landslide for the Dems - ACORN will be busy spreading their multi-billion dollar funds around. Real votes will be lost, stolen, not counted, etc - see the election tactics used in the elections of Christine Gregoire in Washington State for governor, and Al Frankin in Minnesota for senator. These tactics will be applied nationwide. Once elected, radicals will not give the power back - not ever - and will remain in power until physically removed.

Hussein will, at some point, either take advantage of a crisis or make one happen - at which point he too will remain in power until physically removed.

These guys are not you father’s Democrats - these guys are the 60’s ultra radicals - the ones who blew up things, burned cities, and killed people.

25 posted on 08/30/2009 5:25:03 AM PDT by PIF
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To: VRWCTexan

While I sympathise with the sentiment, I can’t jump on the bandwagon with this, and I think it’s largely a non-thinking, knee-jerk emotional response more than anything else.

What people forget is that there still is a gaggle of good Republican legislators in the House and Senate - they just get smeared with the rest of the crowd because of that minority of GOPers who always want to be “bipartisan” and “reach across the aisle” and which end up dominating attention.

Graham, McCain, Snowe, Collins, this little Crist mini-me replacing Mel Martinez in Florida? Get rid of them the next chance we get.

But why toss out solid conservatives like DeMint, Barasso, Coburn, and Thune?

Or even, why toss out those GOPers who sometimes do things that annoy us, but who still have solidly conservative voting records (i.e. who do the right thing when it actually counts?) like Kyl, Shelby, Chambliss, Roberts, Bond, Hatch, etc.? Remember, for example, despite the high prolife attention that a few RINOs got for voting for Sotomayor, 31 out of 39 of them still voted AGAINST her.

Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.


26 posted on 08/30/2009 5:27:58 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: VRWCTexan
Rasmussen has been reading my post again and turning them into questions...

I have been saying this for eons.

To GOP Leader Steele, ask all GOP Leaders to submit fascia resignations and run a completely new slate in 2010.

Flat Tax is so needed with a total number of words no greater than the constitution and bill of rights, 22,000 words if my memory is correct.

Then say goodbye to "K" street which is where the cesspool really is....

27 posted on 08/30/2009 5:28:06 AM PDT by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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To: Lynne

You don’t attack the symptom. You attack the cause. Get back to constitutionally constrationed Governance and suddenly lobbyists start hearing “that’s not in our power under the US Constitution”. Lobbyists are then unnecessary for most of what they do now.


28 posted on 08/30/2009 5:28:14 AM PDT by MichiganConservative (ObamaCare is socialism. It will do nothing but increase premature, unnecessary death.)
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To: VRWCTexan

Replacing all of them is a logical first step.

But, how do we get rid of Obama’s shadow government of czars (grand dukes, oligarchs, gangsters, whatever they are ...)


29 posted on 08/30/2009 5:28:21 AM PDT by Cloverfarm (Where are we going, and why are we in a hand-basket?)
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To: PIF

While I agree they’ll try, talk like that is real effective at getting people to give up.


30 posted on 08/30/2009 5:28:52 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: muawiyah
A long time ago in what is not Zimbabawe, the king was chosen for a fixed term - during that time he could do and have pretty much anything. When his term expired he was - with much fanfare and rejoicing - put to death.

Just saying, not proposing.

31 posted on 08/30/2009 5:30:22 AM PDT by PIF
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To: MichiganConservative

I wouldn’t have a problem with lobbyists aside from the fact that they have millions of dollars to spread among multiple congressmen from multiple states.

We get to write a letter to our sole congressman and offer a minimal amount at election time.


32 posted on 08/30/2009 5:33:30 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: VRWCTexan; All
Some of the 25% of voters nationwide who would keep the current batch of legislators.


33 posted on 08/30/2009 5:37:01 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: VRWCTexan

People may not agree with this, but we also need TERM LIMITS. Serving as a representative of the people was never meant to be a career choice.


34 posted on 08/30/2009 5:38:14 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: VRWCTexan
Especially the Royals in the Royal 100 Club who are totally anti-American on both sides. They should all be elected out and the 17th Amendment taken out of the Constitution.
35 posted on 08/30/2009 5:38:39 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT (I will always be a Soldier)
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To: VRWCTexan

TERM LIMITS


36 posted on 08/30/2009 5:40:35 AM PDT by ryan71 (What the hell's up with spell check?)
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To: VRWCTexan

That would be me. Even if a few good ones are lost, I’ve come to conclusion anyone spending more than 2 years has probably stayed too long.


37 posted on 08/30/2009 5:43:22 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: VRWCTexan

Was the question asked “Do you want to replace YOUR Congressman or Senator?”.

If it was they probably would have received a different response. In most elections post voting surveys ask that question and the majority of people want to keep THEIR representatives but throw out everybody else. Until that opinion changes we will end up with the same bunch of yahoo’s we have now.


38 posted on 08/30/2009 5:45:20 AM PDT by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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To: VRWCTexan

39 posted on 08/30/2009 5:49:32 AM PDT by Colonial Warrior (Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.)
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To: muawiyah
No, a Congress can’t ban lobbying ~ it’s a 4th amendment right. Still, that’s no reason former Congressmen should be allowed to lobby ~ they could be crippled in some way as they left office, or shipped to Gitmo ~

Keep the Constitution. To keep them from lobbying, try them all for treason. Put me on THAT jury.
40 posted on 08/30/2009 5:50:14 AM PDT by safisoft
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