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Vanity Post...How does your Congressperson get to work?
self | 07/27/2008 | politicalwit

Posted on 06/27/2008 10:35:31 AM PDT by politicalwit

While watching CSpan yesterday they were debating a bill to pour more dollars into mass transit. I got to wondering how the majority of CongressCritters and their staff get to work. Do you think they utilize DC's mass transit system?


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OK folks...how about calling your representative's office and your senator's office...lets' see if they practice what the preach.
1 posted on 06/27/2008 10:35:32 AM PDT by politicalwit
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I have been told that Rush (Holt, my congresscritter) does indeed take the DC Metro to the capitol. While back in his district, however, he is shuttle around in an SUV (very green of you, Rush), although his staffers have been talking about scrapping it.


2 posted on 06/27/2008 10:37:24 AM PDT by Clemenza (Friggin in the Riggin...Friggin in the Riggin)
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"OK folks...how about calling your representative's office and your senator's office...lets' see if they practice what the preach. "

My Representatives are from Texas and they don't preach that nonsense. I hope they all drive Hummers.

3 posted on 06/27/2008 10:38:03 AM PDT by avacado
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I’ll bet a lot of the congress commies ride in a bullet-proof limo that gets 5 mpg. I’ll bet their walled enclaves use more energy than the homes of typical little people. But, they’re special, don’t you know?


4 posted on 06/27/2008 10:40:20 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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I tee off the 10th hole at my golf course and can almost hit my Reps house here in Ohio. Requires a very strong 300+ yard push, tho.

I;ve come close on my better (?) days.

I've never seen him without a cigarette in hand so I'm guessing mass transit is out. Although if a drinking/smoking car is involved, he'd be all for it I'm sure.

5 posted on 06/27/2008 10:40:27 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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Actually, I’m still WAITING for my Congresscritters to get to work. So far, they’re all fiddling while America burns. If we don’t stop them NOW, ESPECIALLY with their inaction over domestic drilling and production of oil; over refusing the fix the mortgage crisis which THEIR legislation precipitated; with their refusal to act on illegal immigration, we will find ourselves as the new peon class waking up in our haciendas in MexiAmnada and wondering (too late, as usual) how we got here.


6 posted on 06/27/2008 10:49:30 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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How does your Congressperson get to work?

Not enough people say, "You are fired".
7 posted on 06/27/2008 10:51:05 AM PDT by The_Republican (Conservatives are in trouble because they hate Scarlett Johanson.)
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By broom!


8 posted on 06/27/2008 10:51:12 AM PDT by NRA2BFree (If you need help, ask God. If you don*t, thank God!)
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I’m from New York. I’d prefer that my Congressperson NEVER gets to work.


9 posted on 06/27/2008 10:51:39 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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I believe that he rides on the back of Huma Abedin’s broomstick.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/05/28/2008-05-28_yes_im_hot_for_hillary_clintons_body_wom.html


10 posted on 06/27/2008 10:53:13 AM PDT by Sociopathocracy (Ad majorem Dei gloriam)
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Well, according to Rush, Governor Schwarzenegger gets from home in LA to Sandiego via private jet...not that he has an oil addiction or anything....


11 posted on 06/27/2008 10:59:28 AM PDT by Eepsy (12-26-2008 +1)
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Depending on where their office is, the closest DC metro stop can be a bit of a hike.

Union Station is a couple of blocks from the Senate office buildings, although it takes a while just to get out of Union Station and onto the street.

Capitol South is a bit closer to some of the House office buildings, but not all of them.

Google map, overlaid with Metro stations

12 posted on 06/27/2008 11:12:04 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
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I hope they all drive Hummers.

I hope they walk. We, taxpayers, pay for the Congresscritters' cars and their gas and their aides' cars, &c. I wouldn't look for them to have to declare this perq as income either.

ML/NJ

13 posted on 06/27/2008 11:12:41 AM PDT by ml/nj
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My Representatives work for me and do a good job. I hope they drive Hummers.


14 posted on 06/27/2008 11:15:44 AM PDT by avacado
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My Representatives work for me and do a good job.

Man, are you deluded!

ML/NJ

15 posted on 06/27/2008 11:21:15 AM PDT by ml/nj
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Once they get there, there is a fleet of limosines to pick them up and take them wherever they need to go, say, over to CNN studios, on “official” business. For security and safety’s sake, ya know. And the networks will send a limo over to pick them up if there isn’t a fleet limo available. In the Senate, nearly all have drivers on their office payroll.


16 posted on 06/27/2008 11:30:06 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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" Man, are you deluded!"

I'll say it one more time. My Representatives do a good job for me. I'm in Texas. Perhaps you are not so fortunate!

17 posted on 06/27/2008 11:40:39 AM PDT by avacado
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Post...How does your Congressperson get to work

Kongressmen work? Who knew? I thought they just spent other peoples' money and got paid for it.

18 posted on 06/27/2008 11:41:43 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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“All animals are equal
some animals are more equal than others.”


19 posted on 06/27/2008 11:48:14 AM PDT by Chickensoup (President of the Freeper Co-ed Naked Mud-wrestling Team!)
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I’ve been wondering about this too. Perhaps it’s time to start following these people around with a camera.


20 posted on 06/27/2008 11:53:00 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Barack Hussein Obama=Jimmy Carter II)
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