I'm sure he uses short glasses:
Posted on 12/30/2010 10:39:26 AM PST by zendari
The state of Ohio will lose two congressional seats thanks to the latest U.S. Census figures, and liberal stalwart Dennis Kucinich is worried his seat is on the chopping block.
In an e-mail to supporters Wednesday, the seven-term Democratic congressman and two-time presidential candidate says the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature is likely to eliminate his heavily Democratic Cleveland-area district.
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I'm sure he uses short glasses:
When the Federal government was weak, and low taxing, and not threatening to our liberties, it was thought that the present ratio would be sufficient to carry out the few tasks. No the government is huge, with many agencies having immense powers, unsupervised but in theory only. Any one agency today has more power, more taxing ability( fees, permits, licenses.) then the origination government.
In effect, we are represented, and serviced and protected in theory only now.
One of the benefits of having a ten thousand member house, would be the deletion of special interests. Say you wanted to foist a tax eating, economy killing ethanol program. You would need thousands of lobbyists. Since few special interests would be able to assemble the money for such a purchasing ...er...lobbying army, the ten thousand house members would be more free to act on general principals as opposed to lobbying campaigns.
Maybe not!
If we tripled the size of the body, the respective power of each would be reduced by 2/3. Special interests and lobbyists would have to spend three times the money to purchase enough Reps to get their way, thus reducing their overall impact.
Join the circus?
Rodeo clown, jockey...
If I were Kucinich, I would be worried too!
Not like he doesn’t DESERVE to be worried or anything.
Well, if they did, not to worry, you could always represent Uranus.
We could if they were the part-time citizen-legislators they were meant to be instead of career political hacks. The Constitution designed a well-woven system, but that very aspect means that one element of the system being broken affects others, and the damage cascades from there.
I wonder if she will lose her job next year?
As jackie Gleason would say
“How Sweet It Is.”
She’s a babe all right, but given the loser she married, it appears as if she’s a member of the oldest profession that married a member of the next oldest profession for the purposes of getting all she can out of the idiot.
What? You think you get the last say? Good luck with that.
Anyway, what make you think I want a efficient government? I don’t. I want a dysfunctional, or none at all government. Matter of fact, I deny the very existence of ‘efficient’ government. Anywhere. Ever.
Chew on that. ( Think out side the box you have made. Clue number one, there is no box. )
And as to the idea of increasing the number of representatives so that districts do not have to be eliminated... WTF?!?!?!?!
I doubt it.....
As another poster pointed out, perhaps Congress needs to go back to being part-time. That would give legislators plenty of time to mingle with the electorate. The last thing we need is more legislators to screw things up.
After defeating 5 Dems in the last election the delegation is now 13 R to 5 D.
Losing 2 seats and keeping 13 R’s isn’t going to be easy. Especially with Toledo, Youngstown, and Cleveland.
Not her most flattering portrait. And she is a lefty vegan loon, of course, just like Dennis. Real women love barbecue.
Hitting the egg nog a little early today? ;)
What we have is bad enough. Adding more to the mix is not going to help.
I believe you’re in MA. You most of all know how corrupt govt. is Let’s add more Kujo’s and DiMasi’s and Finneran’s to the punchbowl.
Kucinich is one of the poorest members of Congress.
So she either did it for the greencard or she’s into Keebler elves.
It is nothing a district the width of a lane on Interstates 76, 80 and 90 won't fix. :)
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