Congressman blasted for listening to Constituents !

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[Maelstorm]

Congressman Robert Aderholt Republican from Alabama voted against the financial bail out bill both times it was presented in the House. Part of the reason he gave for his vote was the overwhelming majority of his constituents were opposed to the bill. Upon learning he had dared to listen to his constituents the left leaning Decatur Daily blasted him in an editorial, suggesting constituents opinions should NOT be a consideration in his decision on how to vote !

What kind of nation would we have if all those elected officials in Washington stopped listening to, nor valued the opinion of those who elected them and sent them there to represent and be their voice in OUR government ? I must admit, far too many have done just that ! If more Congressmen and Senators were listening to and in closer harmony with their constituents the bail out bill would have failed miserably. Even more importantly, it would have never been necessary to consider it in the first place. Had the House and the Senate been doing their job, had they been listening to their constituents and placing value on their opinions they would have never allowed the reckless, greedy behavior of Wall Street and the out of control sub-prime lending mess.

The American Citizens are collectively very intelligent and wise. Collectively far wiser than any individual or group. The problem, as I see it is one of a failure to listen to constituents! My hat is off to Congressman Aderholt !

[Maelstorm]

Such an unique idea. Listening to constituents who have to fit the bill? Such a horror!

[K-oneTexas]

Here we go. Journalists/journalism “making the news ... instead of reporting it!”

[ari-freedom]

No, it’s about listening to your conservative principles. Free markets, limited govt.
If his constituents asked for billions of bucks, would you say he should give them what they want?

[kezzek]

The media wants to make all the decisions, how dare the constituents believe what they think is important.

[SantosLHalper]

But yet, they(the media) claim that 70% of Americans want our soldier out of Iraq now and Pres. Bush is ignoring the will of the people.

I guess it's not We the People want ,but what the media wants us to want.

[SantosLHalper]

But yet, they(the media) claim that 70% of Americans want our soldier out of Iraq now and Pres. Bush is ignoring the will of the people.

I guess it's not We the People want ,but what the media wants us to want.

[Old Sarge]

The American Citizens are collectively very intelligent and wise.

You had me going until I read that. Then I realized this must be Scrappleface.

The Sheep are stupid, and the Left knows it - that's why they're in power.

[Navy Patriot]

What kind of nation would we have if all those elected officials in Washington stopped listening to, nor valued the opinion of those who elected them and sent them there to represent and be their voice in OUR government?

Pretty much just like the one we have now, I would think.

[HighlyOpinionated]

My Senator from Georgia who is up for re-election failed to listen to me.

So I voted for his replacement. And it wasn’t a Republican. And I told him so.

[M203M4]

If my constituents asked me to support the bailout, I would have refused with no less resolve than had they asked me to oppose it. It is however nice to be able to say that not only was the decision made on the basis of ideology, morals, and other components your leadership draws upon, but also with strong support of those who voted for you - i.e. without being conflicted.

I want all of the backers of this theft to ESAD. The sham has been exposed, nearly a trillion of wasted taxpayer wealth (the real kind) did nothing for the health of the credit markets, and most of us are now that much poorer (for nothing - and the stupid sons of bitches will hand the screw ups on Wall Street another 2-3 trillion by the time November 4 rolls by). The Keynesian welfare queens will blame “far-right extremists” for delaying the “rescue” and/or for limiting the scope of the cash giveaway, and the left will succeed in its attempts at expanded socialization of the economy. I am ashamed of my president, ashamed of my Congress, and ashamed at the minority of Americans who back this travesty, especially the so-called “conservatives” (mostly neocon frauds if FR is any indication) who championed corporate socialism. A hearty defecation upon the graves of your ancestors to all that apply.

[An Old Man]

This is a test right?

Question: What kind of nation would we have if all those elected officials in Washington stopped listening to, nor valued the opinion of those who elected them...

Answer: Exactly what we have today!

[cripplecreek]

I’m happy to say that my congressman (Tim Walberg) was one of those who remembered who sent him to Washington.

[ninergold3]

Yep - Harry Reid said that 90% of the constituents who contacted his office were opposed to the bill. However, this idiot voted for it - TWICE!

[Man50D]

What kind of nation would we have if all those elected officials in Washington stopped listening to, nor valued the opinion of those who elected them and sent them there to represent and be their voice in OUR government ?

The kind of nation we have been and continue to incrementally become over many years. Increasingly socialistic.

The American Citizens are collectively very intelligent and wise. Collectively far wiser than any individual or group.

Not if you're a socialist. Then the people are considered too stupid to know any better and must be controlled. By some unfathomable line of reasoning many of those who strongly opposed the bail out will vote for one of two socialist Presidential candidates who voted for the bail out. Go figure.

[AuntB]

“I guess it’s not We the People want ,but what the media wants us to want. “

Tagline material!

[ought-six]

The article posits that Obambi, because of the economy, may be indestructible. Obama’s a human being. He is destructible.

[cripplecreek]

In my opinion Representative Thaddeus McCotter gave one of the greatest speeches of our time. It's not a happy speech but it's a speech that should be remembered. It is the speech he gave after the passage of the monstrosity. A lot won't like it but that's really tough.

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R-MI]: Mr. Speaker, we have confronted the first financial panic of the "New Global Economy"--an economy spawned by the fall of the Berlin Wall--and the precedent we set will affect our prosperity, liberty, and posterity for generations.

Unconscionably, we have rushed to misjudgment and approved a $700 billion Wall Street bailout the American people know is intrinsically unfair to them. This truth is self-evident in how, initially, an exiting President and his Treasury Secretary incited a panic amongst our people and the world, all to compel a compliant Congress to deliver upon this demand: "Main Street must bail out Wall Street, or how the people will suffer."

Justly, the people's House voiced the will of the sovereign people and refused. Recalcitrant, the administration zealously intensified its attempt to shift $700 billion worth of consequences from Wall Street onto Main Street and pronounced a new ransom dictum: "No bailout for Wall Street, no tax relief for Main Street, and how the people will suffer."

To this demand, the Congress capitulated. The saddest part of this immorality play is how the people will suffer regardless, and they know it. Working Americans, whose well-deserved tax relief must never be predicated upon rewarding others' misdeeds, understand this self-described, short-term stabilization bill cannot claim with certainty to attain its professed intent, let alone solve the new global economy's latest structural dysfunctions.

Worse, as a multitude of economists and entrepreneurs prove, this bailout bill will reinflate the bubble by $700 billion and thereby only delay our day of economic reckoning. It cannot be otherwise because the bailout bill's central economic construct is patently and grossly unfair to Americans.

Succinctly: Congress will buy "toxic assets" with your money that private investors won't buy with their own money. What a deal for you. Therefore, belying the ludicrous claims, this bailout is designed to save Wall Street, not Main Street. It is small wonder Americans rejected this odious proposal, and equally unfathomable how Congress ultimately approved it.

In the aftermath, a deeper truth emerges from the ruins. In setting a new economic precedent during this pregnant moment fraught with consequence, we also face a transcendent choice between two competing visions for our Nation's future: Global materialism versus American traditionalism; "creative destruction" versus "innovative restoration"; Wall Street versus Main Street.

In the tumultuous transition from our humane American traditions into an insane global age, we viscerally glean the evolving forces dwarfing our mortal power to protect the cherished realms of faith, family, community and country, while in each heart beats the murmur of Yeats: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand."

From this Congress, Americans sought reassurance their representative institutions remained vibrant and sufficient to shelter and steer our Nation through the amoral global flood tide's enveloping chaos. We have answered them today. In voting "yea," you have not solely chosen Wall Street over Main Street, you have chosen the big over the beautiful, the giant over the gentle, the great over the good.

And this decision now shapes our destiny. This being the case, we bailout opponents must grudgingly admit a tinge of envy for its supporters. Tonight, you will go to sleep praying you are right; we will go to sleep praying we are wrong, while in each breast the murmur returns.

Now the future beckons from its ominous shadows, and through the impending gloaming we can but glimpse how the people will suffer. As breaks that nightmarish day, let us arise and combine to transcend the insanity of our age, forge a humane global economy, and restore our American home to a God blessed land of hope, devotion and dreams.

[gunnedah]

That is the attitude that Congress has!

[sport]

Adam Putnal, the Congressman from Florida’s 12th District did not listen to his constituents [he voted for the giveaway two times]. For this I will vote against him come election time.

[Pan_Yan]

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

-Attributed to Alexander Tyler