View Full Version : Poll: Nearly 6-in-10 Want Every Member of Congress Replaced
BMT (RIP)
07-24-2013, 17:09
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/24/Throw-Them-All-Out-Nearly-6-in-10-Want-Every-Member-of-Congress-Replaced
Would you vote them out?
BMT
Would you vote them out?
BMT
As you know, I'm a guillotine kinda guy...
Ain't in no pinkin' mood either.
ddoering
07-24-2013, 18:29
I'm more traditional. I like the Roman motivational method called decimation.
However you all choose, I am one of the 60%.
miclo18d
07-24-2013, 18:44
The funny part is everyone wants someone else's congressman/woman gone but never their own!
I've said it for a few years now. Clean house, let the new crop know they have 1term to get it right and if they don't they will get replaced. Do that a few times and they will get the idea.
Also make it a part time job with no perks at all. Then you will get the guys in there that give a damn about this country and do the hard right think rather than the easy wrong.
Just my .02 worth. :D
Badger52
07-24-2013, 19:32
The funny part is everyone wants someone else's congressman/woman gone but never their own!Oh, not at all. As Rodney Dangerfileld would say, "Take Tammy Baldwin. Please. And Ron Kind could be her luggage boy."
Local, right? :D
C'mon Minnesota, where's all those Al Franken supporters?
As you know, I'm a guillotine kinda guy...
And they can report to wherever MR2 directs.
And they can report to wherever MR2 directs.
You know... we could turn this into a WorldWide Pay-for-View Event.
Let highest bidders pull the lever.
Maybe event pay off the national debt...
Hmmm...
Maybe, just maybe I'll write a movie script.
The funny part is everyone wants someone else's congressman/woman gone but never their own!
Not me. My representation is worthless. It is what I get for moving back to Vermont. When I left in 72 to join the Army, Vermont was one of the most conservative states in the union and now I may be the only conservative left.
You know... we could turn this into a WorldWide Pay-for-View Event.
Let highest bidders pull the lever.
Maybe event pay off the national debt...
Hmmm...
Maybe, just maybe I'll write a movie script.
Who would want to see 50-70, 80, & 90 year olds duke it out? Axes, knives, and wiffle bats I would pay, last one standing lives. except my slugs, they're the best! We need a puking icon for this thread.
ddoering
07-25-2013, 05:44
Who would want to see 50-70, 80, & 90 year olds duke it out? Axes, knives, and wiffle bats I would pay, last one standing lives. except my slugs, they're the best! We need a puking icon for this thread.
Bum fights are pretty popular on youtube.:munchin
GrumpyMedic
07-25-2013, 21:15
I agree with Alelks. Term limits for all politicians, same retirement/health benefits for all federal employees. You're a Senator? You get to use Tricare. You develop an illness or sustain a lasting injury while in office, you get the pleasure of using the VA.
I agree with Alelks. Term limits for all politicians, same retirement/health benefits for all federal employees. You're a Senator? You get to use Tricare. You develop an illness or sustain a lasting injury while in office, you get the pleasure of using the VA.
Hell do not muck up Tricare any more than it is. Make them do what I had to do and pay for the Fed BCBS and file claims like the rest of us....... Keep them away from the VA also as they will try to be important and just run in and out.......
I agree with Alelks. Term limits for all politicians, same retirement/health benefits for all federal employees. You're a Senator? You get to use Tricare. You develop an illness or sustain a lasting injury while in office, you get the pleasure of using the VA.
Members of Congress receive retirement and health benefits under the same plans available to other federal employees. They become vested after five years of full participation.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/congresspay.htm
As far as 'term limits' go, that was a requirement under the Articles of Confederation and changed when the Constitution was written because the experiences of the 'Founders' under that form of government were that such a fiat did not work in developing a viably functioning national-level government.
We, the people, hold the 'lever' for the 'term limits guillotine' for our legislative body - we just need to think about it and apply it periodically at the polling station.
Richard
Ret10Echo
07-26-2013, 08:47
One man's "pork" is another man's "jobs program"
Collectively Congress rates at the lowest...but individually the Reps continue to get reelected.
So each voter chooses to despise the institution...but it isn't "Their guy/gal" who is the problem...'cause they are brining home the bacon.
America's choice to follow a 2-party system only lets them do so much as a voter...and reinforces the ability of those in power to remain so. Then, much like the last few elections, it isn't about who they are or what they do. It's about who they are NOT.
Team Sergeant
07-26-2013, 09:00
I see the problem as "Who wants to work at a pig farm?" Very few could take the smell....
The poll is a load of crap. We all get the basic math 6 out of 10 means we get a new guy in the office.
...them someone explain to me why so many incumbents seem to be able to survive the 50% + 1 that is LITERALLY a 6 of 10 voters? Its smoke and mirrors, nothing more nothing less.
6 out of 10 voters in Kalifornia dont want to replace Pelosi because she keeps the bills paid on the meal ticket, the jackasses in Vegas cant afford NOT to have Harry Reid in office because when it comes to politicians, is such a great bargain, New Yorkers are plenty happy with Chuck Schumer or else he'd be long gone by now.
Americans are too fucking stupid to vote shitty politicians out of office. Mitt Romney and his comment about the 47 percent was a few point shy of the truth if you ask me. Even Bloomberg and his soda bans managed to bypass local term limit laws and is STILL the mayor of NYC. It would seem none of those 6 out of 10 voters polled minded letting him run for a third term.
The current state of politics is just an extension of George Carlin's stand up routine in the last years before his death. I rarely agreed with George Carlin’s politics, but his views on the decline of mankind however dark, are right on the mark. I saw an interview he gave not long before his death and politically he was giving his usual rant on consumerism and its impact on self-absorbed self-important people that are more concerned with getting new cell phones that make pancakes while it scratches their balls, but culturally I think he has already diagnosed our future…
“We’re already circling the drain, and the circles keep getting smaller and smaller and faster and faster.”
“…I’ve given up on my species, and I’ve given up on my fellow Americans, I’ve gave up on my countrymen because we’ve squandered a great gift: the ability to think and learn”
He goes on to opine, “When you’re born on this planet you get a free ticket to the freak show, well when you’re born in America you get a FRONT ROW seat.”
He sort of finished his train of thought with this old quip: “If you scratch a cynic you’ll uncover a disappointed idealist”
Well, we all have the best of hopes for this great nation. I am that disappointed idealist that desperately wants to believe what former president Bush said not long ago, “Whatever challenges come before us, I will always believe our nation's best days lie ahead.”
…and then I realize that the front runner for our countries next president turned a blind eye on her husbands behavior so she could further her own political career and even raised a daughter that couldn’t help herself but to speak out that her grandmother should have had access to “planned parenthood” All the while our current president had to remind us that “he could have been Trayvon”
…that’s when I give in to fate and just take my front row seat to the freak show and nibble my popcorn while I watch the circles get “smaller and smaller and faster and faster.”
Just my two cents, I could be wrong