Posted on 08/30/2009 4:57:55 AM PDT by VRWCTexan
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again
Overall, these numbers are little changed since last October. When Congress was passing the unpopular $700-billion bailout plan in the heat of a presidential campaign and a seeming financial industry meltdown, 59% wanted to throw them all out. At that time, just 17% wanted to keep them
Now I can go for that. We must outlaw Communism first as un-american.
then the upcoming elections will maybe be tossing a lot of these idiots out of office, but we still have that guy in the white house and his czars.
Maybe if we could replace them and they didn't come back things we get better.
Well voters, you CAN throw out the entire house of representatives next year, and in fact we can throw that lot out every two years without exception.
I’m not sure I think it would be great to do it every two years, but I think in 2010 it would be the best thing we could do for our country.
Ever single one OUT!
This happened with the City Council of NYC a few years ago and everyone thought it would be chaos. The big apple survived.
Now, of course, they’ve gotten rid of term limits, so I’d say it was time to throw that crew out en masse, but I don’t think that is going to happen.
However, the NYC City Council is not on the verge of ruining the country, the current congress is.
An all new congress could vote to ban lobbying...Nah, never happen.
TERM LIMITS PEOPLE, TERM LIMITS.
Three terms for Reps, two for Sen. Then out you go. We don't need Kennedy Dynasties, or Byrds for 60 years.
I’d at least like to see term limits for the congress critters. The only problem is it’d take a constitutional amendment. And the only way to get an amendment without congress’s vote is to have a constitutional convention. And that would open up the whole constitution..
Make that 57% plus one (me...I wasn't in the poll).
Every district and staate should have a meeting to throw a dart at the telephone book to choose a better representative.
No, a Congress can’t ban lobbying ~ it’s a 4th amendment right. Still, that’s no reason former Congressmen should be allowed to lobby ~ they could be crippled in some way as they left office, or shipped to Gitmo ~
I’d go for it.
There may be a couple congress-critters that and Senate bores that I ‘might’ miss, but the overall hygiene of getting rid of the vast majority of them would be so refreshing it would be worth it.
Especially if we could get term limits at the same time. One time for Senators and a max of three times for Congressmen.
I am TIRED unto death of this “Society for the Preservation of Incumbents”.
We need a none-of-the-above choice.
Thanks for the link.
Sometimes I wonder if what I’m thinking is typical. Then I read a poll like this and find I agree with 57% of America.
Problem is, if you asked them if they wanted to keep their Congresscritters, probably 90 percent have no problem with theirs. In the people’s minds, it’s not THEIR Congressman who’s the problem, it’s everyone else’s.
Change we can believe in! Let’s keep the faith till next November!
As far as Critterdom is concerned, I’d never want to swim in the cesspool that is DC, but I’d be happy to run as the none-of-the-above candidate. If I win, I’d refuse to serve, and our House district could have another crack at it. And if we could do this with Congressional districts all over the country....Hmmmm, this could be fun.
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