Happiness is...Gridlock

Campus Report ^ | March 16, 2009 | Daniel Allen

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Happiness is...Gridlock

by: Daniel Allen, March 16, 2009

Congressman Tom Price (R-GA), who represents the “happiest district in the nation” according to a recent study, expressed his regrets that his district “is not happy about what’s going on here in Washington right now.” Congressman Price serves as the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, and was a strong opponent of the omnibus bill which Congress has now passed and sent to President Obama for his signature.

The Congressman, who addressed an audience at the Heritage Foundation on March 10th, took the opportunity to describe the mood of policymakers and constituents in relation to the omnibus appropriations bill. “Right beneath the surface of the American electorate is an anger that is just waiting to be tapped, and an action that is just waiting to be tapped,” he said. This feeling expresses a sentiment that says, “No, time-out, this isn’t the direction, this isn’t the change that we desire.”

The problem is not just with the individual members of Congress, Price emphasized, but with the very system that Congress uses to produce legislation. This system is vulnerable to abuse, and allows Congressmen to push their pet projects and earmarks at inappropriate times.

“The process we have right now is corrupt…and it is corrupting,” he said. “It’s not that some people can’t spend money wisely, it’s that the system and the process that we have right now are so flawed that I believe we have to stop the process, reform the process, and then move forward in a way that the American people can agree with.”...

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Congressman Tom Price (R-GA), who represents the “happiest district in the nation” according to a recent study

Funny, I live in Price's district, and I haven't noticed people being particularly happy. In fact most are pi$$ed off with congress, the economy and especially the usurper in the White House!

I'm not that enamored with Price, who refuses to even consider that 0bama fails to meet the "natural born" requirements of The Constitution.

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Part of what Price says is good but there is so much other that I disagree with there is not space here to comment. One example is holding Democrats accountable...how about adding the Republicans?

Nigeria has nothing on Washington for overt and covert corruption...Washington is just more sophisticated and genteel about it.

Gridlock would be best. Isn’t it amazing that we just add laws and regulations claiming it is adapting to change when most of it is simply feeding the lobby and special interest monster? It would seem that if we are really interesed in adapting to change that we would retire obsolete laws and regulations since I’m sure some of the things they were written for are now long gone. Never works that way though.