In the more than likely event that most of these miscreants are STILL in office after 11/4, here's a gift suggestion for ya'.
Posted on 10/05/2008 10:40:37 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
59% Would Vote to Replace Entire Congress Sunday, October 05, 2008
Congress was front and center in the national news last week and the American people were far from impressed. If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 59% of voters would like to throw them all out and start over again. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 17% would vote to keep the current legislators in office.
Today, just 23% have even a little confidence in the ability of Congress to deal with the nation’s economic problems and only 24% believe most Members of Congress understand legislation before they vote on it.
Last week, the House of Representatives initially rejected a financial bailout bill proposed by the Bush Administration. Later, after the Senate added a number of items that some call “pork” and others call “sweeteners,” the measure eventually passed. While the bill survived Washington, it did so at a time when just 30% of voters favored it and 45% were opposed.
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Yes, but they won’t do it.
All talk.
Yeah..they’d vote everybody else’s congressman out if they could...but not their own.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’ll try to act surprised when they all get re-elected....
Which goes to show how disconnected the average voter really has become. They’re dissatisfied with Congress as a whole, but see no problem with sending THEIR Rep back again and again. IOW, it’s a case of, “It’s not MY problem, it’s YOURS.”
A Constitutional Amendment establishing term-limits on Congress would eliminate most of government problems...and reduce the POWER of the politician.
“Yeah..they’d vote everybody else’s congressman out if they could...but not their own.”
Duncan Hunter is my congressman. So there is great truth to this.
TERM LIMITS
In the more than likely event that most of these miscreants are STILL in office after 11/4, here's a gift suggestion for ya'.
Not holding my breath.
I wonder: is Barney Frank running unopposed? Honestly, the people in his district should be ashamed.
Good idea, but to get that amendment, you would have to get 67% of the incumbents to vote for it. Fat chance.
That would be change you could believe in!
seriously!!!!!!!
Heads up - this could turn the tide.
FOX is rerunning “Saving the Economy...” at 2 EST this afternoon and again at 10:00pm and again at 1:00 in the morning.
They ran it 3 times yesterday.
If you haven’t seen it, you MUST. It is a TOTAL take-down on the demRats regarding the Fannie/Freddie economic debacle.
It names names, shows clips, shows how Bush sounded the alarm and tried to get it reigned it, how the republicans tried to and had hearings - to be shouted down by the demRats and defeated with all demRats voting against, all pubs voting for reigning it in - led by barney and Dodd and Shuckster, how the 2 biggest recipients of the Fannie/Freddie were Dodd and Obama - how a ‘young community organizer, years ago, in Chicago, worked with ACORN to push through these loans for even NO income people - a young community organizer named BO -
This whole program is a total and stark expose laying out who - the demRats - brought this all about and how they blocked every effort by the Republicans to reign it in.
If you have not seen this program - you must. I pray they keep airing this until Nov. It may just wake some people up.
It’s an issue that all America is paying attention to, finally. This program shows them who orchestrated the whole fiasco.
I could hardly believe my ears when I heard it last night. Incredible. So far, I haven’t heard a peep of ‘outrage’ from the left. I think this scares them to death and they hope it will just go away.
I think there’s going to be some major investigations although, if we don’t give mcC/Sarah a majority in the Senate and House to work with, it won’t matter if barney et al are found absolutely guilty - they will NOT be forced to step down. Take the case of william “cold cash” jefferson, for ex.
email everyone you know to watch this and email FOX with KUDOS - the more response, the more they’ll air it.
Funny thing is, the Senate had passed all that "pork" or "sweeteners" a week earlier, on a 93-2 vote on HR 6049. Then they passed it AGAIN in combination with the bailout.
That along with repealing the 17th Amendment, which I believe would make our government much, much more responsive to the people and senators more focused on actually doing their jobs.
A congressman speaking on television is good for constipation.
Absolutely. In our case that’s true. I’m guessing a majority of voters in Susan Davis’ district feel the same about her.
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