A Better Question - Political Forum

CHUQ · #1 (**permalink**) 10-29-2006, 04:42 AM

After doing some reading yesterday I came across some info I would like to share with my comrades here.

The Congress is in recess so they can go home and spread the BS like peanut butter. We know that they make $165,000 and yr plus benefits we can only dream about. They work 3 dyas a week about 100 a yr. Not a bad gig if you can get it.

Only 11 bills became public law and these were passed in sept aznd oct. One was for funding for DHS, one was for funding for DOD, one was a wildlife program and one was to protect service people from shister salesmen, and these were appropriate. Check these, 3 were to rename PO's, 2 were about construction of a hydro plant, one was to name something Cheney and one was the reauthorize livestock reporting.

So basically 4 bills of substance in a year, not bad.

So my question is, why would we want any of the do nothing bums back?

I say term limits and a genuine recall plan. Since none of this will become law I then suggest--never vote for an incumbent! No matter what party, with that we could possibly start over without the bang bang.

CHUQ · #2 (**permalink**) 10-29-2006, 06:11 AM

Just an after-thought:

Recently Bush said in a campaign wspeech, that if we leave Iraq the "they" will follow us here. Does he mean tose in Iraq or bad guys in general?

If Iraq had been handled diplomatically, would we be having this line of campaigning?

If there is evidence, why not put it out there? Let the people see what is!

superbug · #3 (**permalink**) 10-29-2006, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by CHUQ

Just an after-thought:

Recently Bush said in a campaign wspeech, that if we leave Iraq the "they" will follow us here. Does he mean tose in Iraq or bad guys in general?

If Iraq had been handled diplomatically, would we be having this line of campaigning?

If there is evidence, why not put it out there? Let the people see what is!

Well that evidence and source could very well be classified. But if we cut and run it would not surprise me in the least that we would see them here in no time.

CHUQ · #4 (**permalink**) 10-30-2006, 04:42 AM

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Originally Posted by superbug

Well that evidence and source could very well be classified. But if we cut and run it would not surprise me in the least that we would see them here in no time.

Kinda like the North Vietnamese, they were suppose to be the vangard of helping all tose dominoes fall over.

CHUQ · #5 (**permalink**) 10-30-2006, 04:45 AM

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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois

The idea of term limits appeals to me, as a way to do something about gerrymandering, however I don't think that will solve the problem. I worry about gerrymandering as the #1 problem for US elections.

Term limits appeal to a lot of people,but as long as we have the do nothings in Washington it will always be a dream. Gerrymanding is a prob and I wish I could come up with an equatable solution, but right now the caffine has not kicked in.