Posted on 04/20/2008 1:51:34 PM PDT by nels96
A REVOLUTION TO TAKE BACK THE US CONGRESS by Nelson Lee Walker of tenurecorrupts.com
I am proposing that we create a popular, bloodless, political revolution in our country.
I believe that it is very necessary, very possible, and very doable.
The object of this revolution is the destruction of the professional political class which currently dominates and corrupts the US Congress.
I am convinced, as are many, many voters, that the bulk of our country’s political problems arises out of this ‘permanent’ Congressional political class, and their devotion to party power and to the financial special interests keeping them in power.
There is a simple way for voters to create this revolution: That way is to...NEVER REELECT any Congressional incumbent, anytime, in the House or the Senate, good guys or bad, in either party. Just NEVER REELECT!
It can be done easily and at no cost. All it takes is a national email campaign by all voters, getting their friends, and their friends, and their friends, to send out this NEVER REELECT message, frequently, thru out 2008, 2010, and 2012, and maybe longer...Just NEVER REELECT!
If we succeed in doing this for two or three election cycles, we would sharply reduce the rate of successful reelections from over 98% in the House. Similarly in the Senate. This leaves room for and encourages ‘citizen’ legislators. It would break the back of the special interests and allow ‘citizen’ legislators, using the Internet, without the help of special interests, to run for and win office.
The resulting larger contingent of freshman Congresspeople would enable us to call for term limits of “6 Years and Out”, and for publicly funded federal elections. Both of these changes would keep the professional politicians and their financial backers on the sidelines for a long, long time.
Let’s do it! (Note to all readers: Please feel free to use this message, with or without attribution, for any purpose.) .
Sen. McCain and the republican candidates for U.S. Senate and House should agree to a set of about five promises that would be similar to the Contract with America. They would promise that, if the country elects a republican president and republican majorities of both houses of Congress, they would pass a set of bills. They would include:
1. Decreasing tax rates to the 1989 rates.
2. Eliminating all unconstitutional pork barrel spending, which includes federal spending on health care and education.
3. Building a brick wall, on the Mexican border, which would be finished by July 2009,
4. Tripling fines for employers who hire illegal aliens. The money that is collected, from these fines, would be used to hire more border patrol agents.
5. Repeal of federal gun control laws.
DC clearly needs an enema in a big,big way.Starting with mcnutts.
I want to have a torch and pitchfork party on the mall. 100,000 pissed off taxpayers and voters carrying pitchforks and torches (nightime obviously) from the Washington Monument to the steps of Congress.
Ditto.
Vote Tar/Feathers '08
Why is it that the President is limited on terms but congress isn’t? Doesn’t seem fair to me.
If progress is moving forward what does that make congress?
Vote for the best, expose the rest.
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A bloodless revolution? Wake up in reality. We are in the middle of a bloodless revolution now; the maniacs are taking the country over without a shot being fired. And your idea is based upon free elections being held. If Obama gets in, free elections are over dumbass.
How are free elections over?
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