At no time has any member of either body offered even the slightest hint of corruption.
I don't think so. Votes are purchased all the time for below the radar screen issues, that the press ignores because it is too comlicated for them, and/or not sexy enough. Trust me.
I'd trust you a whole lot sooner than I'd trust that bunch in DC.
Carolyn
Since you are accusing Congress of an illegal act I hope you have details to back yourself up. For example? Name 3.
This is what I find the most ironic about this whole unconstitutional CFR. Whoever supports it is makes this ominously self-revealing statement: "I know politicians must be corrupt, because I am corrupt myself. Politicians need to be protected from themselves by--[guess whom]--the Government!"
Bribing is done in the greatest possible secrecy, so there is no way for politicians, especially opponents, to know about one another's corruption affairs. (Unless the scandal becomes public, but that has hardly been a case with a majority of Congressmen.) Presuming without proof that your opponents are corrupt, while maintaining the claim that you yourself are honest, is in hypocritical contempt of the presumption of innocence. By trying to use your own corruptness as proof of your opponents' corruptness, you incriminate yourself, and prove nothing about your opponent. By saying that politicians are corrupt by nature, while being a politician yourself, you admit to being corrupt by nature, and you even make no apologies about it.
It was a good idea from Senator McConnell to include this line in his speech. He made it quite clear to his fellow Senators: If you vote for this unconstitutional bill, you admit to being corrupt. And lo, 49 Democrats and 11 RINOs still voted for the unconstitutional bill.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson