Congress Built it, and funded it approved all facililty maintenance and expeditures. Congress decided to close it and has reduced funding to it. With all the LONG term Congressmen that have passed through it's doors (both Parties) is this a congressional failure? When Presidents arrive I am sure they get the Red carpet tour, but congressmen Hmmmmmm. I am all for having the Buck stop with the presidents but this time I think Congress Needs to step up. your thoughts? Please limit the big bashing sessions.
2007-03-05 23:50:44 · 10 answers · asked by Thor Girl 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Name something wrong with the US and you will find that Congress is deeply involved with the failure.
Congress in its present form is what is wrong with America today.
The real problem in America is stupidity, special interest and/or laziness of the voter. How does a person who takes bribes on video, laughs about the ineptness of the FBI and puts $100K in a freezer get elected 8 times? And then the Senate leaders yell and scream about separation of powers. Yes they are right, it is about their power and even if it is against the law, you will not thwart their power.
You have career politicians running the government, not citizen legislators. Many accuse the career corporate CEO of only working for themselves, not the stockholders. Career politicians are NO different and they seem to think they are above the law and expect preferential treatment. If the only issue to remaining in power is to obtain cash, buy some votes with special interests and have the media spotlight, then the incumbent has it easy, all at your expense.
In the Senate there are:
44 Dems averaging 20.8 years in Congress
55 Reps averaging 16.1 years in Congress
these numbers begin to make it look like career politicians are in control, who have lost touch with you the citizen and are more entrenched in their own careers.
For the Senate, if you were to use two terms or 12 years in Congress as a term limit
25 Dems would need to leave and 25 Reps would need to leave.
Those Dems are averaging 27.1 years in Congress
Those Reps averaging 24.0 years.
80% of Dems in the Senate have been there more than 12 years
58% of Repubs have.
46% of Dems in the House have been there more than 12 years
32% of Repubs have.
Ben Franklin said of congress, "They are of the People, and return again to mix with the People, having no more durable preeminence than the different Grains of Sand in an Hourglass. Such an Assembly cannot easily become dangerous to Liberty. They are the Servants of the People, sent together to do the People's Business, and promote the public Welfare; their Powers must be sufficient, or their Duties cannot be performed. They have no profitable Appointments, but a mere Payment of daily Wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their Expences; so that, having no Chance for great Places, and enormous Salaries or Pensions, as in some Countries, there is no triguing or bribing for Elections"
If you like the current political system continue voting along partisan lines. If however you are tired of the corrupt ways of elections and would like to see Franklins words be true again, vote for change.
Our country is being run by career politicians who for the most part appear to have lost touch with what you want, and are focused on what they want.
You can change this NOW.
1. Quit your partisan sniping, it is childish and only serves to remove the focus from the real problem in America.
2. Enlist your friends and family in the fight and ask them, if they agree about Congress to do the same.
3. Vote against the person who has 12 or more combined years in Congress
4. This will require in many instances you having to vote for someone outside of your normal party, but you are a patriot and you can do what is right.
Show congress in this next election that we the people are running things in this country, not career politicians. And we are going to do what is right.
I will end now with a favorite quote of mine.
“If a legislator is "safe" from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.” -Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Decisions for a Decade
2007-03-06 01:55:18 · answer #1 · answered by rmagedon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem is not just Kennedy. If anyone in Congress or other high political position was put in the same situation as the wounded soldiers, SOMETHING would have been done long, long ago. They have their world full of perks ...and the peons get the leftovers.
Could you imagine a Senator, President or Congressman getting put up in a mold infested room?
2007-03-06 07:58:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
This is partisan nonsense. Two army executives were forced to resign, and, President Bush has called for an investigation. It is a problem that hopefully will be resolved to prevent such occurrences again in the future.
2007-03-06 08:00:17 · answer #3 · answered by Firesidechat 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Many of the problems we have are congressional and not presidential in nature. They always blame the president because he can be seen and can stay 8 years at most.Term limits in congress might not be a bad idea.
2007-03-06 08:08:34 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What ever happened to those 94 Republicans who were all for creating short term limits? As for the question, I'm not sure what Ted Kennedy is up to aside from making us libs look bad. Maybe his personal assistant keeps track of this sort of thing.
2007-03-06 07:55:42 · answer #5 · answered by I'll Take That One! 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I bet conditions are great in the Cheney Suite where he goes so the doctors can marvel at how someone with no heart can have problems with it.
2007-03-06 08:08:07 · answer #6 · answered by Meg W 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He probably has been using the facility since he has been in Congress for periodic bouts with alcholism and driving girls off bridges and killing themism.
2007-03-06 07:57:37 · answer #7 · answered by mr_methane_gasman 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Ted Kennedy doesn't care aboaut vets.
So why would he go to Walter Reed.
2007-03-06 07:56:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Yes. But can he remember whenever his fog lifts?
2007-03-06 07:56:53 · answer #9 · answered by Curt 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
HE WAS THERE, BUT HIS VISION WAS TO BLURRED BY THE SCOTCH TO SEE ANYTHING WRONG!
2007-03-06 07:55:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋