Posted on 08/30/2009 4:57:55 AM PDT by VRWCTexan
If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Amazingly the very peak of civilization was reached in Zimbabwe ~ and then they threw it all away.
BRAVO!!! TERM LIMITS are words worth repeating. Join the National Term Limits Movement.
I agree, Bill Ayers should be in jail
Yes, but if this gaggle of present legislators is already good, then why on earth would we want to replace them? That's just plain bad sense. Any business organisation worth its salt would laugh at the idea of replacing good workers with more experience with a bunch of young pups who, while perhaps also being good workers, don't have the knowledge to get things done as well. Most businesses that do that end up having problems.
The wish to replace the whole of Congress reflects a loathing of the corruption of incumbency, rather than a rejection of any particular political philosophy.
Which is....a non-thinking, knee-jerk response. When you vote based on loathing instead of thinking about practical and philosophical reasons, then it becomes a matter of brute emotion. This is further compounded by the fact that the instant you elect somebody, they automatically become an incumbent, and hence are just as susceptible to the "corruption of incumbency" as was the gang you just voted out.
Enemys Foriegn and DOMESTIC!
Crazy, right? And that was before Europeans showed up to wreak everything!
Only 57%? I’m stunned.
In Japan for first time in 40 years the Liberal Dems were swept from office in a landslide - people were fed up - could happen here in 2010
I think it will happen. People are getting scared of dem extremism.
Methinks what the winning party will find out is that it’s a lot easier to be the opposition and complain about everything.
Now they actually have to govern, and that’s a whole other kettle of fish.
Yeah well, if clothes make the man...
heh,heh
I can’t keep the third- and fourth-generation Kennedys straight.
Sounds like a plan.
I seriously believe that, within the next four-six years, this will come to pass - one way, or another.
Obama is not the disease - he's a symptom.
Good, about 57% of Congress needs to be replaced.
A Humble prediction:
In that face of this discontent, only 93% of incumbent conresscritters will be returned to fleece us instead of the usual 98%. The Soviet Politburo had more turnover.
Why? Because people won’t vote against THEIR congressman as long as the checks keep flowing into the home district.
PJ O’Rourke was half right — yes we do have a Parliament of Whores, representing an electorate of whores.
Heh. FYI, an excerpt from this interesting ARTICLE
This is most easily seen in the children of wealthy parents. Successful businessmen, for example, who have made it on their own normally have a respect for the effort and the economic system that makes success possible.
Their children, who have not had to work for it, are easier targets for guilt-mongering by the envious. So they assume a posture of liberal compassion as an envy-deflection device: "Please don't envy me for my father's money -- look at all the liberal causes and government social programs I advocate!"
Teddy Kennedy is the archetype of this phenomenon.
This is also why Hollywood is so liberal. The vast amounts of money movie stars make is so grossly disproportionate to the effort it took them to make it that they feel it is unearned. So they apologize for it. The liberal's strategy is to apologize for his success in order to appease the envious.
Congressional Progressive Caucus
There is not a good one on that list! Then the associated Senators should go as well.
Without actually engaqing in charitable activity. Cf. Gore’s and other Democrats’ double-digit charitable giving.
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