Posted on 10/29/2005 11:26:41 PM PDT by Tom87
"Twaddlizing?"
I'm pretty sure that's illegal in Georgia.
The vast majority of senators of BOTH parties, in my opinion, are completely pathetic. They are like a deck party of elites on the Titanic.
I miss the days of firing squads and keel hauling.
IMO, the battles should be: 1. establish term limits, being a politician should NOT be a career, I suggest a maximum of 8 years total with regard the congress i.e. 4 terms house, or 1 term house, 1 term senate, if we keep the popular election of senators - see next item; 2. eliminate popular election of senators, they are supposed to represent their state not the people, that's the representatives' job. I find it incredible that in a country which professes to be established on the idea of States' Rights, the only entity that has no direct representation in congress are those same states. Go back to what the constitution originally had; 3. set up terms so that time spent in office is 3 months DC, 3 home, 3 DC, 3 home. That would sure keep them down home where we, their bosses, are, not in the elitist atmosphere of DC; 4. something has to be done about campaign finance, and the kind of bills they do now are not the answer. IMO, the only real answer is to eliminate any kind of direct campaign finance. So, all contributions would go to one huge fund and that would be divided between all candidates qualified and running for office. Like that would ever happen. But, it sure is one way to eliminate 'influence', since no one would know who contributed to their campaigns, lol. Just getting my frustrations out there....
Well, it's time to give up on the Republicans.
It seems we're doomed to a huge debt and huge spending.
Remember that this bill passed 85 to 15. That means plenty of Republicans supported it. They apparently didn't have the balls to say no.
Reagan did the same thing. He ran the defecit up, won the cold war with it and then the Democrats had to raise taxes to pay it off. Reagan got what he wanted because Democrats would have thrown the money away and raised taxes anyway.
Maybe that's Bush's strategy.
Dr. Coburn is a good man, sound fellow. He is the most true conservative left in the Senate.
Regards, Ivan
Screw the Republican Party. Screw the democRat Party. Useless parasites, all of them.
I'm sorry. I know Coburn's amendment was symbolic, but I'd much rather send money to the bridge to nowhere than anywhere near the corrupt Louisiana political machine.
What's the difference between a politician and a con artist? A con artist will sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. A politician will build the bridge for you "At no extra cost."
You're way off.
The problem is that we have too much democracy. People are voting themselves money. It's as simple as that. Anyone threatening restraint pisses off some group that's getting a hand-out or subsidy. You don't win elections without buying votes with tax-payer money.
If you want restraint, the first thing you could do is get everyone to pay taxes. When bridges to nowhere stop being "free" to large numbers of voters, then they might change. But tell me, who's going to vote people into power that are going to tax them?
See, too much democracy. We have voters that pay too little in taxes, but want to be given large amounts of money.
As far as I'm concerned, if you receive government money, or you don't pay taxes, you should have no say concerning spending legislation. But that wouldn't be democratic. "The people" would have less power. Less power to steal from taxpayers, that is.
Hey, don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
I guess it's time the spread the corruption to Alaska, right?
That's the long-term effect of government spending like this.
Or maybe I suppose this spending is itself a form of corruption. At least of Republican principles.
I take hope from this, in a small way. At least there were 15 that voted for sanity. I would never have predicted that many ahead of time.
Sadly Louisiana will also get their share of pork.
Wow. A whole 15 votes to kill a totally-useless bridge to accomplish absolutely nothing. Yeah, that's dandy. Thank God for the Republican Party's victories over the years; it's really paid off, just like they promised. All that "limited government" going on.
Screw the Republican Party. A pack of lying, thieving parasites.
He ran the defecit up, won the cold war with it ==
It is wrong. Reagan didn't win cold war. He just astronomically increased US debts. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
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