Posted on 06/27/2009 11:11:14 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
Thank you for expressing your adorable concern over what we do here in Washington DC, the center of your lives.
Rest assured that the very complicated and smart things we do are both quite necessary, and also none of your business. Please return to voting on American Idol, as that is the only vote of yours which affects reality.
Sincerely,
Your Royal Congress
They are all self serving, lacking of conviction and overpaid dunderheads IMO.
A lot of this thievery is written by our elected representatives staff who, in turn, are heavily influenced (AKA bribed) by Lobbyists and other influential constituencies.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if much of what has been and is voted on is not read by anyone other than the Staffers who actually compose the Bill.
I wonder now if the 8 morons from the Republican Party who voted for this bill can be talked into changing their vote since they voted for something that doesn’t exist.
To be fair, he does not say in that quote that those 5 days have to be BEFORE the bill is voted on.
MALPRACTICE
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I believe "non-emergency" is the loophole here, since in Obama's bizarre interpretation of the world, virtually everything is a crisis and any legislation he wants is a response to an emergency.
Dear Senator:
I am composing this letter as a constituent and a US citizen. As you are probably aware, we are in an economic downturn that so far is paralleling that of the Great Depression. Given that alone, the last thing we need is the horrible mistake of an energy tax increase that is what the 'cap and trade' legislation that just passed the House is.
There is nothing in it to promote nuclear energy which is the only practicable 'renewable' replacement for coal and oil today. And I am too knowledgable to fall for the lies from the ignorant who are pushing wind and solar as being substitutes any time soon. Given these facts, this bill is nothing but a tax increase that will not work in any significant way to reduce dependence on coal or oil, but will only hurt people, particularly the poor. If you have a conscience, you will reject this 'cap and trade' garbage bill for that reason alone.
It shames the USA that it was passed in the House without debate and in such a hurry that nobody who voted on it was given access to the final draft or time to even read it before voting. No competent legislator would vote for a bill without knowing exactly what it contains, and if you become a thief in the night yourself by going along with this 'cap and trade' scam by voting for it without fully learning what it contains and without a debate, I will make it a point to work to have you unseated and rightly so, because you will have proved that you are not worthy to be a US Senator.
Sincerely,
Bump
All of these theatrics are necessary due to the extreme complexity of the laws. I'm not defending it. It makes it possible for the intent of the Constitution to be subverted, e.g. spending bills don't have to really originate in the House, secret legislation, things which resemble bills of attainder, delegation of power, etc. The Supreme Court has have something to work with, y'know?
Ultimately this is something to take up with your CongressPerson. Voting for non-existent bills is really a serious lapse of judgment. We elected a representative, not a rubber stamp for oligarchy.
They need to be held accountable. I am getting on the phone Monday and calling my Reps to see how this happened and why.
Nancy Pelosi I hear your swan song. She should be drummed out of Congress and put in jail. I mean really in jail.
Why blame Pelosi??? She got those morons to vote for a bill that had only a title...She and her cronies will fill in the blank pages later...
There's something mentally wrong with the Democrats...But they seem to be far smarter than the Republicans...
Excellent!
No, they aren’t smarter; they are just more crooked.
Good question. I wonder if they knew?
As I understand it, the House conveniently voted to recess for a week. Everything is strategically planned to keep the common people's complaints at bay.
Yet the 8 Republicans cast a final vote for it’s final passage.
Did they or ANYONE? ANYONE? ANONE? on their staff not know what was being read by Boehner?
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How can the House action be legal if they weren’t voting on an actual bill?
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