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Article is worth the read.
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Posted on 02/05/2015 6:25:30 PM PST by LucyT
I am a member of Congress. I'm not going to tell you from where, or from which party. But I serve, and I am honored to serve. I serve with good people (and some less good ones), and we try to do our best.
e.g.:
5) "We don't have a Congress but a parliament
"Over the last several decades, party loyalty has increased to near-unanimity. If a member of Congress doesn't vote with his or her party 99 percent of the time, he's considered unreliable and excluded from party decision-making.
"Gone are the days when you were expected to vote your conscience and your district, the true job of a congressperson. Parliaments only work because they have a prime minister who can get things done. We have a parliament without any ability to take executive action. We should not be surprised we are gridlocked."
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
1) Congress is not out of touch with folks back home
2) Congress listens best to money
3) Almost everyone in Congress loves gerrymandering
4) You have no secret ballot anymore
5) We don't have a Congress but a parliament
6) Congressional committees are a waste of time
7) Congress is a stepping-stone to lobbying
8)The best people don't run for Congress
9) Congress is still necessary to save America, and cynics aren't helping
Article is worth the read.
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Thanks, LucyT
The article is read worthy.
Anonymity = Coward.
Bob Barr covered these subjects in his book “THE MEANING OF IS” about ten years back. Check it out.
“Parliaments only work because they have a prime minister who can get things done.”
Parliaments are closer to direct democracy in that the Prime Minister is, usually, always selected from the majority party. Given his built-in majority, it is more likely that the PM will have an easier time enacting what the country wants quicker and with less resistance than our government. This makes for a more responsive government in the short term, more likely to go with the fads of the day.
” We have a parliament without any ability to take executive action. We should not be surprised we are gridlocked”
What this writer calls gridlock, the Founders called divided government. It’s supposed to be this way. So, factoid #5 is incorrect. What we have is not a parliament.
Yeah, this critter profile-in-courage is just proving his point.
Bump
1) EXEMPT Congress is out of touch with folks back home
2) EXEMPT Congress bows to money obtaining illegally
3) Almost everyone in EXEMPT Congress loves themselves and the MSM
4) ...
5) EXEMPT Congress has made itself a parliament
6) EXEMPT Congressional committees are kabuki
to enable treason, and destroy accountability.
7) EXEMPT Congress is a stepping-stone to violating law
and getting kickbacks
8)The best people don’t run for EXEMPT Congress,
just media whores and treason enablers who violate
their Oath on day 2.
9) EXEMPT Congress funds al Qaeda, the Moslem
Brotherhood, Iran and Korea against free countries.
10) EXEMPT Congress continues to Quarter diseased
illegal immigrants secretly for their Master Moslem Tyrant.
BUMP!
gridlock is better than sh1t laws being passed.
to wit, obamacare.
it was designed that way on purpose so govtcouldn’t just roll over the citizenry.
Thank you.
Sums it up, nicely.
And all this is why we need to limit their power
It’s corrupting, even for the few previously-decent ones
Yes, it was worth the read. I’m still really curious as to who wrote it.
Not at all secret:
2) Congress listens best to money
3) Almost everyone in Congress loves gerrymandering
6) Congressional committees are a waste of time
7) Congress is a stepping-stone to lobbying
8) The best people don't run for Congress
Fibs:
1) Congress is not out of touch with folks back home
They may handle things like missing Social Security checks, but they don't give a rat's behind about the true beliefs of the people. They just find out from their pollsters what they need to be outraged about sometime around August of election year.
4) You have no secret ballot anymore
Having a statistical knowledge of how a neighborhood votes is not the same as "no secret ballot". Sure, it is a little bit fancier than a precinct by precinct count, but a politicians a good ground game have known that for a long time.
5) We don't have a Congress but a parliament
Parliaments can collapse with a no confidence vote. Also I would rather have the parties split ideologically rather than by regions like in the old days.
9) Congress is still necessary to save America, and cynics aren't helping
We aren't going to change the Constitution,
That might not be true if the Article 5 movement keeps growing. More states than necessary have asked for a convention, so now the argument is whether the states have the ability to restrict the topic and whether those restrictions can limit the count. If state A asks for a convention for topic 1, and state B asks for a convention for topic 2, do those restrictions on topics mean that 0, 1, or 2 states have asked for a general convention.
Get over your nostalgia: Congress has never been more than a sausage factory. The point here isn't to make us something we're not. The point is to get us to make sausage again.
Maybe they should stop making 4 trillion dollars of sausage. Not every single topic and every single dollar of production, spending and even free time should go through the sausage grinder. Just stop.
NSA knows...
Spot on. It’s a Dem pol writing in Vox.
They know everything.
Ill bet you next week’s pay that a congressman did not write this.
There is no way to prove that either of us wins.
If he or she wants to be so bold, then they should go public.
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