Posted on 05/13/2016 3:10:53 AM PDT by detective
An anonymous congressman has dropped a bombshell election-year book that confirms why Americans hate their national government and have rallied to anti-establishment presidential candidates like Donald Trump.
The veteran politician lays bare a rotten and corrupt Congress enslaved by lobbyists and interested only in re-election in an anonymous, 65-page manifesto called “The Confessions of Congressman X.”
“Like most of my colleagues, I promise my constituents a lot of stuff I can never deliver,” he admits. “But what the hell? It makes them happy hearing it . . . My main job is to keep my job.”
The House member — a Democrat who is either still in Congress or served sometime over the past two decades — says more time is spent fund-raising than reading bills and calls Washington a “sinkhole of leeches.”
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Exactly. There’s nothing really surprising in this.
What a coward. If he really had any real backbone, he’d put his name to it.
Every time I hear “term limits”, it makes my a$$ ache.
We have term limits. It’s called an election. Term limits would compel good legislators to be ousted along with the useless.
Just get off your sofa, get informed, and vote.
The house members should not have to live in DC in this high tech world. It should be part time job meeting in session every year for 4 months at a time. The senate should be full time by term limited.
Which Congressmen has Robert Atkinson been chief of staff and press secretary for?
it makes my a$$ ache. Can I steal that one?
Exactly right, my district showed the rest how it is done in June 2014.
CANTORIZE YOUR WEASELS, AMERICA!
“Get informed.” Ha. Surely you jest. My grandpa voted for him. He’s a nice looking man, he’s been in office 37 years, we can’t toss him on the street. I just wake up around noon, go smoke some cigarettes, have a coffee and go early vote whenever I get around to it.
Voting should be one day and one day only. Absentee should be limited to handicapped, elderly and those with a legit excuse. Purple finger dye should be used. ID is mandatory. Voting is important and should be difficult.
I was in college for my first vote. I took the day off and drove home. I drove 400 miles to vote for Ronald Reagan.
“If they did their job they would be popular and not have to raise so much money.”
All political donation is ultimately meant to sway the swayable. The last time 65% of eligible voters turned out was 1908. It hasn’t cracked that since, often being only 50-55% or so. If a campaign can sway the dumbest 10% or so of voters, they win. The ones that vote one way and then another and can usually give no cogent reason as to why, the so called ‘swing voters.’
So we have a system where the dumbest voters actually decide elections by being swayed. The problem is I think if more people voted it would only really increase the % of the swayable.
Freegards
Repealing the 17th amendment would be a good start.
True. I look out my window in the morning and all I see are hard working people running for the bus or subway to avoid being late for their jobs. Or delivery boys, garbage men and construction workers hard at it.
Don’t see much self-absorbtion myself. You called it correctly.
Anybody paying attention already knows this. Anybody not paying is not going to start now.
I paid good $ going to school to learn that!!
You can write all the letters you want but some DC lobbyist is going to hand your “representative” money at lunch to ignore you. Period.
Its Bushes fault.
Gotta hand it to 'em, whoever it is, I hope it sells.
“Term limits”
Congress would have to pass the legislation. :) They have it sewn up. If my memory serves me correct, term limits was the campaign rhetoric back in the 80’s.....during the republican revolution (?) It rallied the voters. But once the election was over Congress decided that term limits were unconstitutional. How convenient.
Well if it is a casino then ztrump is the one who should run it
Oh go listen to beck.
Yup, not only did Congressman X make a boatload of money at taxpayer expense, but now he'll make even MORE when we buy his book pamphlet telling us how he fleeced us in the first place.
Ya just can't make this stuff up.
Instant gratification: Like when people go bankrupt with the uncontrollable desire to get things they can not afford like dorm like expensive colleges, houses, cars, trucks, etc. on credit.
People used to save up to buy things and only buy things they needed or wanted. The housing crash could sum it up today’s social sickness with instant gratification...or the student loan bubble.
We, as a society, also demand the government give us things the government can not afford. Corporate welfare and ghetto welfare come to mind.
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