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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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again
Overall, these numbers are little changed since last October. When Congress was passing the unpopular $700-billion bailout plan in the heat of a presidential campaign and a seeming financial industry meltdown, 59% wanted to throw them all out. At that time, just 17% wanted to keep them
Now I can go for that. We must outlaw Communism first as un-american.
then the upcoming elections will maybe be tossing a lot of these idiots out of office, but we still have that guy in the white house and his czars.
Maybe if we could replace them and they didn't come back things we get better.
Well voters, you CAN throw out the entire house of representatives next year, and in fact we can throw that lot out every two years without exception.
I’m not sure I think it would be great to do it every two years, but I think in 2010 it would be the best thing we could do for our country.
Ever single one OUT!
This happened with the City Council of NYC a few years ago and everyone thought it would be chaos. The big apple survived.
Now, of course, they’ve gotten rid of term limits, so I’d say it was time to throw that crew out en masse, but I don’t think that is going to happen.
However, the NYC City Council is not on the verge of ruining the country, the current congress is.
An all new congress could vote to ban lobbying...Nah, never happen.
TERM LIMITS PEOPLE, TERM LIMITS.
Three terms for Reps, two for Sen. Then out you go. We don't need Kennedy Dynasties, or Byrds for 60 years.
I’d at least like to see term limits for the congress critters. The only problem is it’d take a constitutional amendment. And the only way to get an amendment without congress’s vote is to have a constitutional convention. And that would open up the whole constitution..
Make that 57% plus one (me...I wasn't in the poll).
Every district and staate should have a meeting to throw a dart at the telephone book to choose a better representative.
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 ~
I’d go for it.
There may be a couple congress-critters that and Senate bores that I ‘might’ miss, but the overall hygiene of getting rid of the vast majority of them would be so refreshing it would be worth it.
Especially if we could get term limits at the same time. One time for Senators and a max of three times for Congressmen.
I am TIRED unto death of this “Society for the Preservation of Incumbents”.
We need a none-of-the-above choice.
Thanks for the link.
Sometimes I wonder if what I’m thinking is typical. Then I read a poll like this and find I agree with 57% of America.
Problem is, if you asked them if they wanted to keep their Congresscritters, probably 90 percent have no problem with theirs. In the people’s minds, it’s not THEIR Congressman who’s the problem, it’s everyone else’s.
Change we can believe in! Let’s keep the faith till next November!
As far as Critterdom is concerned, I’d never want to swim in the cesspool that is DC, but I’d be happy to run as the none-of-the-above candidate. If I win, I’d refuse to serve, and our House district could have another crack at it. And if we could do this with Congressional districts all over the country....Hmmmm, this could be fun.
I’d like to replace them with a damn house plant!
It would be great if they would VOTE that way for a change. They usually vote the same old jerks in again.
I’m working to return my former congressman to office.
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?)
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.
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.
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....
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.
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 ...)
While I agree they’ll try, talk like that is real effective at getting people to give up.
Just saying, not proposing.
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.
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.
TERM LIMITS
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.
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.
perhaps one of the new members of congress will have the courage to challenge the constitutionality of those czars.
no wonder we can’t get rid of the bastards...
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/gunny-g-and-why-its-a-problem-for-we-the-people/
Right,
We always hear about how much the Public hates the Democrats and this Socialist Government, but come November and every 2 years, they keep getting reelected and they seem to add a few more Democrat seats to boot.
Curiously, most will be returned for yet another term of spending us into oblivion and calling their constituents racists.
Oh no! You mean I’d lose Franken, Klobuchar, and Ellison in
one vote? How would the country survive? Let’s git ‘er done!
No matter how many of us may want honest government, most democrat voters just want the same liberal promising goodies returned to office. A call to eliminate all of congress will wipe out republicans alone.
Would you throw out the First Amendment as well? I strongly oppose socialism and communism, and as a small business owner, I dread what Obama is going to do to my business. But I prefer the concept of "I disagree with what you said, but would fight to the death for your right to say it!"
We need to show that government of, by and for the people works because the people want it, not because they are forced to accept it under law.
I think there are laws against Treason. Communism is Treason and a danger to the Constitution.
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