I thought they were supposed to pass good laws and vote on bills and budgets.
But now that Dems are in control, it will be one witch hunt after another.
That's fine with me, but when it's all said and done, and nothing has gotten accomplished except a lot of Liberal-like slander and accusations, will we look at this Congress and ask "what have you done for us lately?"
2007-03-20 08:47:36 · 17 answers · asked by Philip McCrevice 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm sure people making minimum wage are ecstatic.
2007-03-20 08:51:33 · answer #1 · answered by Abu 5 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Well, the democrats' constituents want the to stop the war, but the democrats in congress aren't about to end a war that's given them so much. They didn't even really have to campaign. All they had to say was, "I don't support the war," and they got elected. They can't end it now because as long as it's going on all they have to do is say, "I don't support the war," every so often to keep up their popularity.
On the other hand, if the war ends, whether or not everything goes to hell, there goes their platform, and they have to find other issues to deal with. They're not going to want to do that much work.
2007-03-20 16:01:44 · answer #2 · answered by DOOM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They aren't the "bionic Congress." Heck, my state just started hearings and voting on bills, just last week. They spent the rest of the time submitting bills. Thousands of them. Things just don't work that fast. They aren't magic fairies who sprinkle dust and suddenly everything is peachy. You have to see what the end results are. Man, people have absolutely no patience these days. I thought my four year old was bad.
2007-03-20 15:55:10 · answer #3 · answered by Groovy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are nothing but a bunch of career crooks lining their pockets, buying votes and giving grants to their supporters, all with the money they steal from us. People worry way too much about the Pres, he is term limited, the crooks are not.
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
2007-03-20 16:03:27 · answer #4 · answered by rmagedon 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Come on! That isn't fair.
In the spending bill the House approved they voted themselves a great deal of money to redecorate their offices!
You can't say that the Dem's haven't accomplished anything!
2007-03-20 15:52:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
Nope. It's just one bogus vote after another attempting to make some sorta point that we shouldn't be in Iraq (getting better by the day, by the way).
2007-03-20 15:56:00 · answer #6 · answered by Robert S 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I know for sure that the dems lied about their intentions and trashed Repubs to take office...even though Repubs did in fact make the mess.
What the dems did was even more wicked and deceiving than Repubs.
2007-03-20 15:53:10 · answer #7 · answered by Jerry H 5 · 5⤊ 4⤋
The libs are doing the usual thing,power politics,make a lot of meaningless noise and cast blame when nothing worthwhile gets done.
All part of their strategy to win back the White House.
Then ,we can all hang on to our wallets and our rights as the libs will be coming after them.
2007-03-20 15:54:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Gridlock...
The best we can hope for any law making branch of the government.
2007-03-20 15:56:08 · answer #9 · answered by floatingbloatedcorpse 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No.
They are too worried about partisan politics to do the job they were elected to do. It's both parties, not just Dems.
2007-03-20 15:53:59 · answer #10 · answered by davethenayber 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I'm happy as long as Bush and his cohorts are having to answer for their actions. One of the purposes of Congress is to balance the govt. Thay cannot pass any legislation anyways, as the Republicans in the Senate will block it.
2007-03-20 15:50:38 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋