Some House members have mental faculties so diminished they can no longer do their jobs

Up to a dozen members of Congress reportedly have mental faculties so diminished they can no longer do their jobs — with some even showing up drunk or stoned to cast votes.

“There’s no question that somewhere between six and a dozen of my colleagues are at a point where they’re … I think they don’t have the faculties to do their job,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn) told Politico, which spoke to 25 members of the House and Senate who spilled the tea on their unnamed colleagues.

A Republican colleague concurred, with an important addendum.

“I have a difficult time sometimes telling between the deterioration of members and a handful who are just not very smart,” the unnamed lawmaker said.

I found this comment:

I still see posts from friends who are livid over what Trump is doing , I need you to consider the following .
To whomever wrote this- Well said!!

When millions of illegals were ushered in through the southern border, you said nothing!
When they abandoned millions of dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, you said nothing!
When they flaunted a two tier justice system, one for them and one for everyone else, you said nothing!
When they covered up the Hunter Biden laptop, you said nothing!
When they passed a trillion dollar infrastructure bill that failed miserably, you said nothing!
When they forced Americans to take an untested vaccine, you said nothing!
When inflation crushed the middle class, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Ukraine, you said nothing!
When chemicals polluted the water in East Palestine, Ohio and they ignored it, you said nothing!
When Americans were raped, robbed and murdered by illegals, you said nothing!
When they implanted Kamala as the presidential nominee without getting a single vote, you said nothing!
When billionaire and anti American George Soros funded dozens of AG elections, you said nothing!
When they turned our classrooms into liberal indoctrination camps, you said nothing!
When they spent our tax dollars on inmates transition surgeries, you said nothing!
When they gave the citizens of Hawaii $700 after losing their entire city, you said nothing!
When they gave free money, food and 5 star hotel lodging to illegals, you said nothing!
When they came for our free speech, you said nothing!
When DEI weakened the military and put our national security at risk, you said nothing!
When they colluded with the media to push false reports, you said nothing!
When it was open season on law enforcement and criminals reigned, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the justice system to take down their political opponents, you said nothing!
When the bureaucrats took over the White House and ran the government, you said nothing!
When they covered up Biden’s rapidly declining mental state, you said nothing!
When they groomed our kids in school and hid it from the parents, you said nothing!
When the drug epidemic exploded and 1000s died annually, you said nothing!
When they accosted the jews on their campuses, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the intelligence agencies against Americans, you said nothing!
When they spent $45 million dollars on “Diversity and Inclusion” scholarships in Burma, you said nothing!
When they let men play women’s sports, you said nothing!
When they chanted “Death to America” and burned our flag, you said nothing!
When they shutdown our energy production, and emboldened Russia, you said nothing!
When the crime rates in American cities increased, you said nothing!
While thousands of veterans were left to sleep out on the streets, you said nothing!
When 300,000 migrant children went missing and no one had a clue, you said nothing!
When Joe Biden pardoned his friends and family, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Iran and inadvertently funded Hamas, you said nothing!
When men were celebrated for pretending to be women, you said nothing!
When they let a Chinese Spy Ballon sail across America, you said nothing!
When 50 intelligence agents all lied to bury the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, you said nothing!
When American citizens were taken hostage and held for a year in Gaza, you said nothing!
When Facebook admitted, they conspired with the Biden administration to censor the truth, you said nothing!
When they cleaned the streets of San Francisco for the communist Chinese President Xi Jinping, you said nothing!
When Fauci and the WHO peddled covid 19 virus lies and covered up the origins, you said nothing!
When they sealed the January 6th commission files or “lost them”, you said nothing!
You saw the corruption, the lies, the bad policy, the anti American agenda and said nothing, so please spare us your crocodile tears and all your fake hysteria now. For 4 years you watched this country get run into the ground on all fronts and you said nothing!
Now, it’s our turn!!!!

I have followed politics since I was a kid — over sixty years ago. I know little or nothing about most politicians’ personal lives or proclivities. But just observing how a lot of them conduct themselves publicly, I have to say that the current bunch has to be among the worst we have ever had. Adding booze, drugs, and addled-mindedness to the mix only makes them even worse.

These are the 535 people who make big decisions for the rest of us.

But the voters let it happen. Most people don’t vote. Among those who do, too many are ignorant of critical issues and the people who are sent to deal with them. As was said about Obama — he isn’t the real problem. The real problem is that there are people who would vote for him.

If elections worked California would have a responsible legislature.

False analogy. Term limits were offered as a way to fix California's legislature. The change made it obviously worse. The reason is that we got rid of the few competent representatives and reconvened a uniform body seeing their futures as revolving door lobbyists. You would dump Grassley, Lee, and Johnson for whom? John Kennedy is getting old, do you think he's daft?

BTW, we don't have elections in California; it's a rigged fraud machine. Voter rolls in Los Angeles total 112% of the number of eligible citizens who live there. It’s the same in every large city in the country, ALL dominated (and ruined) by Democrat politicians. Do you think it’s Republicans controlling voter rolls in Los Angeles? Do you really think even 80% of eligible citizens in LA actually register to vote? Even if that many did, it would mean that effectively 40% of voter registrations in LA are FAKE.

California would still have a responsible legislature but for the Warren Court, which ordered that the State Constitution be redrafted such that all legislators in both lower and upper houses be democratically elected from districts of equal population. What was a republican system of the upper house representing counties, became a democratic system in total. It was a ruling in direct conflict in principle with the Great Compromise that became the Constitution itself. Fix that problem first. Then dump the 17th Amendment.

I suggest a little time with Constitutional history. The Articles of Confederation had term limits. The Founders dumped that constraint for the Constitution. Madison wrote in Federalist 53:

A few of the members, as happens in all such assemblies, will possess superior talents; will, by frequent reelections, become members of long standing; will be thoroughly masters of the public business, and perhaps not unwilling to avail themselves of those advantages. The greater the proportion of new members, and the less the information of the bulk of the members the more apt will they be to fall into the snares that may be laid for them. This remark is no less applicable to the relation which will subsist between the House of Representatives and the Senate. Hence your condescending and flippant reposte is shown to be bitter and shallow.

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