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Similarly, newly released numbers from a USA Today/Gallup poll of registered voters conducted May 24-25 says 60 percent would rather vote for a candidate who has never been in Congress compared to 32 percent who favored the incumbent, with 8 percent undecided. Sixty-three percent say most members of Congress do not deserve re-election, compared to 32 percent who say they do, the highest negative figure Gallup has recorded since 1992.The senate and the congress should be moved to one of the closed military bases. There is communal housing so they will have to actually associate with each other. There is a nice mess hall where they can eat and not dine with lobbyists. They can do our business in open cubicles instead of private offices. By logging in at the gates we'll know who their meeting with. By placing them in some desolate location You'd know where the lobbyists were. And they could still get a pass to go on liberty or visit Hooters and relax. They could use the base pool and other recreation facilities on the base. Hell they could even form paint ball teams and use the base training course to destroy each other. The money to be saved on their entitlements would more than pay for it, and they might get something done.
June 08 2010 at 10:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHow about bringing back some common sense, responsibility and accountability?....
June 08 2010 at 9:53 PM Report abuse Permalink +6 rate up rate down ReplyYou know IF I WAS A INCUMBENT.....I would go to the bar order a couple of doubles of Jack and review how I went against the wishes of the voters in my area...then pull out the " HELP WANT ADS" .""IN THE LONG RUN AS LONG AS THE PUBLIC HAS THE RIGHT INFORMATION ,THE PUBLIC WILL MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS." It was either Franklin
or Jefferson...who said that but I can't remember which.
But this one I am sure of "America is not great because of her strengths,but in her ability to address her faults"
DeToqueville.
American voters are reminding politicians just who is boss.
June 08 2010 at 5:43 PM Report abuse Permalink +11 rate up rate down ReplyWe need nominees that understand that their first responsibility is to the people and their party affiliation is way down the line. We need laws that state if a nominee promises something during the election process he must try to fulfill his/her promise or voluntarily resign or be impeached. We need a 5 party government to disable the hold one party has over all else. We need to stop the greed and special benefits of all encumbents. They should have the same Social Security and Health benefits and nothing more than the taxpayers that put them into office. REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!!!!
June 08 2010 at 5:39 PM Report abuse Permalink +8 rate up rate down Reply"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...it is their right,it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
-----Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
Johnblack
You are partly right. But you forgot one big thing. If you were a Republican in office and the other party shut you out of the meeting drafting the bill like the democrats have done in the past 4 years. Then when you have good input to be added they say no , but when it comes time to vote they want your yes vote or you become the party of NO.
Guess wht if that is hw they wanted to play so be it I would have voted no also. Just remember what the Democrats did with Bush for the last 2 years of his term, nothing but say no! all I have to say is if you can not take it do not dish it out. What goes around comes around.
You can already hear the Democrat rationalization for the huge landslide defeat in November, anti-incumbant backlash. When Osama ushers in Republican control of both Houses with strong candidates, we owe them a great big thanks and that is exactly what will happen.
June 08 2010 at 4:47 PM Report abuse Permalink +11 rate up rate down ReplyJohnblack
It is simple to figure out why the Republicans will win big in November. It would be to stop Obama and his agenda that he is pushing!!
WE NEED TERM LIMITS.......AFTER WE VOTE THEM ALL OUT AND START WITH PEOPLE THAT HAVE AGGREED TO JOIN OUR HEALTH CARE. BET THEY WILL FIX IT THEN......
June 08 2010 at 4:35 PM Report abuse Permalink +9 rate up rate down ReplyAnyone who votes for major legislation such as the health care bill, and then exempts themselves from the legislation that effects the rest of us, should be thrown out!!! In fact they should be deported since they don't want to live under our laws. Let them live somewhere else!
June 08 2010 at 4:07 PM Report abuse Permalink +16 rate up rate down Replyi do not know why political analysts do not get it.....any politician who either supported or voted for obamacare will not be voted into office.....even if you are a state politician but made it quite clear you were backing obamacare...good luck! you really do not think all of that hard work of Tea Party Movements and 9/12 Movements...month after month...ending with obama and democrats spitting into the faces of the votes and passing obamacare while Americans said "NO" will pass without a huge price to pay for any democrat? you just do not have the pulse of Americans if you think they will vote for anyone who wanted obamacare...no way!
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