Posted on 05/12/2016 9:47:47 AM PDT by Nachum
A new book threatens to blow the lid off of Congress as a legislator has penned a tell-all about the worst parts of serving in the House of Representatives – saying that his main job is to raise money for re-election and that leaves little time for reading the bills he votes on.
Mill City Press, a small Minnesota-based 'vanity press' publisher describes 'The Confessions of Congressman X' as 'a devastating inside look at the dark side of Congress as revealed by one of its own.'
'No wonder Congressman X wants to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. His admissions are deeply disturbing.'
The 84-page exposé is due in bookstores in two weeks, and Washington is abuzz with speculation about who may have written it.
A website set up to sell the book discloses that the author is a 'Democrat.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Hmmm Is that you Al Franken?
Sounds like a pissed off fiscal conservative.
If a congresscritter can do nothing but fundraise for the next campaign, did they also happen to spend two years fundraising to get the job in the first place?
Since most congressional campaigns are spur of the moment things, or a progression from another office, I suspect not.
I say expose the author so that they can be ejected for not doing their job. As that pesky stuff like reading bills that you’re voting on (or even, gasp, (CAN YOU HEAR ME CRUZ) submitting your own...)
They’re all in it for the money.
Virtually every one retires a multi-millionaire.
Why else do they raise millions for a job that pays at most less than $200k.
It’s money, money, money, in peacetime anyway. 90% of them, at least.
Dingy Harry’s Autobiography?
He also comes from a part of the country which respects people who tell it like it is.
Does the author wants to piss off the next generation who will be expected to pay for the promises made within Social Security and Medicare for example.
How long until the voting populations of these demographics collide?
I can see someone like Franken calling for a ‘wealth tax’ on the elders.
There’s software now that can gather samples from many authors, and work out who likely wrote an unclaimed work. Watches assorted word patterns that differ between most people. IIRC they used it on the Obama’s memoirs, pretty well proving that Alinsky wrote it.
I think you meant to say Bill Ayers wrote it.
I believe that .... apparently X has the goods on some big people ... or it’s all boojit
picky, picky, picky
Actually, we have a different problem.
How is it we can have representatives that will do the people’s business, if raising money for office is all they do?
They have a choice of the big donor or the laborious rubber chicken circuit.
meh
I think you had Ayers in mind - easy substitution to make!
The only way to fix the problem:
* Term limits for elected officials
* A ban on employment as lobbyists and similar positions after leaving office
The Founders designed the government to work with people from all walks of life entering government for short periods, then returning to their main careers in life.
They did not envision a professional political class with a sense of entitlement and using the power of incumbency to stay in office term after term.
The advantage of incumbency mist be eliminated.
That is the major contributor to the problem of having people like Robert Byrd, John McCain, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi squatting in Washington their entire adult lives.
We need a limit of one term per lifetime as a congressman OR senator and one term as president.
A limit of one 4 year term for congressman OR senator.
One term as one or the other but not both per lifetime
A limit of one 6 year term for president.
Congressmen and senators who wish to run for president may do so but first must resign their current position prior to announcing their candidacy.
A ban on employment as a lobbyist or with a government contractor or supplier, or any similar position for all elected officials for ten years after leaving office.
A similar ten 10 year ban on employment as a lobbyist or with a government contractor or supplier, or any similar position for all military officers and high level government employees, especially cabinet members and legislature staff.
More than likely a straw argument to try and muscle in campaign finance restrictions and public funding of campaigns.
It amazes me that nobody questions how a middle class guy can get elected to a job that pays $174,000 a year and after about 10 years be worth 10's of millions of dollars.
Finally the truth comes out. Being a congressman is just another get-rich-quick scheme.
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