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‘We’re running a f—ing casino:’ Politician tells all in manifesto
New York Post ^ | May 13, 2016 | Carl Campanile

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; congress; congressmanx; election2016; gracchi; newyork; pages; populism; populists; revengeofthegracchi; trump
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"“Voters are incredibly ignorant. It’s far easier than you think to manipulate a nation of naive, self-absorbed sheep who crave instant gratification"

Democrat Congressman writes a book on what really goes on among the Washington insiders.

1 posted on 05/13/2016 3:10:53 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

link to the book.

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Congressman-X/dp/1634139739/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1463134471&sr=1-1&keywords=The+confessions+of+Congressman+X


2 posted on 05/13/2016 3:13:20 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Karl Marx wrote a manifesto. The Unibomber wrote a manifesto. Now Dhimmicrat Congress Members write manifestos.


3 posted on 05/13/2016 3:16:13 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Instant gratification?

Were is the gratification? All they do is pump me for money every April 15th like the mafia.

4 posted on 05/13/2016 3:19:20 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: detective

TREASON - continuous, in-your-face, agenda-driven, agency-abetted, representative-enabled, media-complicit, ongoing...


5 posted on 05/13/2016 3:20:41 AM PDT by PGalt
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So far I’ve seen nothing that indicates that this book’s author is a real Congressman rather than just someone on the outside who can see the obvious. What in this Congressman’s story is new to anyone?


6 posted on 05/13/2016 3:21:42 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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You’re right. Any well-read FReeper could write a book like this.


7 posted on 05/13/2016 3:27:35 AM PDT by upchuck (I'm hanging here until my Free Republic 401K is fully vested.)
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To: thoughtomator

The arrogance that he can actually say it and not feel any shame or concern that the sheep he lords over can do a damn thing about it?


8 posted on 05/13/2016 3:28:10 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: detective

Term limits


9 posted on 05/13/2016 3:29:41 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Thumper1960

I’ve had it cross my mind more than a few times that the sheep deserve to be treated like sheep because they insist on acting like sheep. While I haven’t fully come to accept this proposition, it wouldn’t surprise me that the political class has, especially with the incentives they receive to rationalize the situation in this way.


10 posted on 05/13/2016 3:39:03 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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“Were is the gratification? All they do is pump me for money every April 15th like the mafia.”

Sheep = Democrat voters.

Instant Gratification = Welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, free medical care, etc.

11 posted on 05/13/2016 3:47:29 AM PDT by detective
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We are ready for our Caesar.


12 posted on 05/13/2016 3:49:17 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so that others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: thoughtomator

The politicals have contempt for people. Not hard to rationalize contempt for a citizenry that exhibits soaring and searing stupidity.


13 posted on 05/13/2016 3:51:02 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: thoughtomator

I agree. I would be extremely cautious attributing this to a “congressman”. It sounds bogus to me, and I’d give 8-5 odds it will be revealed as a hoax within a few weeks, if not days. I am sure many congressmen think this way, but they learn to keep their thoughts to themselves, or they would be out of job.


14 posted on 05/13/2016 3:51:04 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full Civil Rights for Necro-Americans!)
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I for one have long since ceased my quest to save people, as it has been made clear every way possible that people simply don’t want to be saved, they want to pursue the current trajectory until impact because any change from that trajectory scares them.


15 posted on 05/13/2016 3:52:36 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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From the book:

Voters are described as gullible, know-nothing jerks, while the only people who count are the big donors who pour billions of dollars into lobbying.

I have for years pointed this out. The money is making the decisions and LITERALLY causing those below millionaire level to be enslaved.

16 posted on 05/13/2016 3:52:44 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so that others don't have to do it for you.)
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“‘We’re running a f—ing casino:’ “

I wish that were true. Casinos are highly profitable and the house usually wins.


17 posted on 05/13/2016 4:19:42 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (It's the apocalypse, lets have some fun!)
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“All they do is pump me for money every April 15th like the mafia.”.....

Well, “Congressman X” did say he had to fund raise all the time instead of actually doing the job he was elected to do. Why do we think that being in Congress is such an enviable job and many seek such an opportunity?


18 posted on 05/13/2016 4:20:16 AM PDT by DaveA37
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“I for one have long since ceased my quest to save people, as it has been made clear every way possible that people simply don’t want to be saved, they want to pursue the current trajectory until impact because any change from that trajectory scares them.”

Like a guy who jumps off a tall building and at every floor says “So far so good”.


19 posted on 05/13/2016 4:23:08 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (It's the apocalypse, lets have some fun!)
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