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
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.
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.
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”.
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!
I’d like to replace them with a damn house plant!
It would be great if they would VOTE that way for a change. They usually vote the same old jerks in again.
If this is one of those rare instances where amateurs would do less damage, you have to wonder about the nature of the job. (Perhaps it’s to do damage?)
While I sympathise with the sentiment, I can’t jump on the bandwagon with this, and I think it’s largely a non-thinking, knee-jerk emotional response more than anything else.
What people forget is that there still is a gaggle of good Republican legislators in the House and Senate - they just get smeared with the rest of the crowd because of that minority of GOPers who always want to be “bipartisan” and “reach across the aisle” and which end up dominating attention.
Graham, McCain, Snowe, Collins, this little Crist mini-me replacing Mel Martinez in Florida? Get rid of them the next chance we get.
But why toss out solid conservatives like DeMint, Barasso, Coburn, and Thune?
Or even, why toss out those GOPers who sometimes do things that annoy us, but who still have solidly conservative voting records (i.e. who do the right thing when it actually counts?) like Kyl, Shelby, Chambliss, Roberts, Bond, Hatch, etc.? Remember, for example, despite the high prolife attention that a few RINOs got for voting for Sotomayor, 31 out of 39 of them still voted AGAINST her.
Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I have been saying this for eons.
To GOP Leader Steele, ask all GOP Leaders to submit fascia resignations and run a completely new slate in 2010.
Flat Tax is so needed with a total number of words no greater than the constitution and bill of rights, 22,000 words if my memory is correct.
Then say goodbye to "K" street which is where the cesspool really is....
Replacing all of them is a logical first step.
But, how do we get rid of Obama’s shadow government of czars (grand dukes, oligarchs, gangsters, whatever they are ...)
TERM LIMITS