Thread: Maybe Why Congress Has A 10% Approval Rating

Originally Posted by OldmanDan

This seems to me to be one of the biggest problems we have today with our government. Congressmen who are not doing their job.


Since we will never get term limits without a Constitutional Convention, we need to just agree to vote out of office every Senator who has bee there more than two terms and every Representative who has been there more than 4.

It will never happen because while national approval of congress as a whole is extremely low... local approval for individual members is frequently quite high. Everyone thinks is the other guys' faults. They hate it when congress votes pork for the other states... but when it's close to home... pork is really "just desserts" for most people.

Mark it down on your calendars. I agree with Unique POV. Too many people will hold their nose to vote for the lesser of 2 evils and too many incumbants will slither by. The only place you might get some success is in the primaries. Look at that former FL governor. What was his name, Crist?

(Texas Rant)
I think Rick Perry will have trouble from the right in TX. Deborah Medina cleaned his clock in the primary debates last election. If Glenn Beck hadn't twisted her words and accused her of being a birther, she may have been our governor right now. (I bet Glenn is regretting that one.) Perry better get tougher on illegal immigration and push for open carry legislation or he will lose a lot of support in the next primaries.

We all complain about Congress. Unless we are willing to get rid of our local guys too, even if not in a primary, we have nothing to complain about.

Originally Posted by OldmanDan

We all complain about Congress. Unless we are willing to get rid of our local guys too, even if not in a primary, we have nothing to complain about.

Nothing is wrong with congress that eliminating a few left wing nut obstructionists won't cure.

Originally Posted by dnsmith

Nothing is wrong with congress that eliminating a few left wing nut obstructionists won't cure.

Ahh, yes, but also have to acknowledge that there are some right wing nuts in there too, and they're not helping either.

Let's all join in the middle with fiscal and spending sanity.

Originally Posted by eohrnberger

Ahh, yes, but also have to acknowledge that there are some right wing nuts in there too, and they're not helping either.

I agree. I planned to put that in but got side tracked. Thanks!

Originally Posted by dnsmith

I agree. I planned to put that in but got side tracked. Thanks!

Oh no! Finishing each other sentences??? :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by dnsmith

Nothing is wrong with congress that eliminating a few left wing nut obstructionists won't cure.

Oh, there's a lot wrong with Congress. Did you watch the video?

Originally Posted by Texan

Mark it down on your calendars. I agree with Unique POV. Too many people will hold their nose to vote for the lesser of 2 evils and too many incumbants will slither by. The only place you might get some success is in the primaries. Look at that former FL governor. What was his name, Crist?

More than that though, they write their own rules. Even if all of them have individual ratings of 1% or less they won't toughen the ability to serve on themselves, they are the final say on the matter. Kind of like the Supreme Court allowing cameras...if they say no, who do you have to appeal to?

(Texas Rant)
I think Rick Perry will have trouble from the right in TX. Deborah Medina cleaned his clock in the primary debates last election. If Glenn Beck hadn't twisted her words and accused her of being a birther, she may have been our governor right now. (I bet Glenn is regretting that one.) Perry better get tougher on illegal immigration and push for open carry legislation or he will lose a lot of support in the next primaries.

Are you fucking kidding? The woman was fucking loony toons. She thought the attacks of September 11th were an inside job...Beck calling her crazy should put into perspective how far gone she was. Because in the minds of most rational people, Beck is fucking crazy!

Kinky was crazy in the last race, then there is perry of course...

Now how fucked up does our entire state have to be that Rick Perry is seen as the most acceptable choice? I get that it is the lesser of 2 (well, all) evils but if Perry is seen as the best choice then things are bad.

I doubt Perry will get tougher on illegals, if he does he may win the primary but he will lose the general. Open carry may be an issue for him though, he is getting pressure from the Debbie Riddle wing of the party on both fronts but he won't ever get tough on illegals.

Of course that is assuming he runs again. Which i doubt. The whole country saw him for the fool he is through the GOP primary. Still, the retard fits the state.

[/Anti - Texas rant]

No, wait, i mean...

[/Calling out Texas for what it is, rant]

Congress has way too many men who are in it just for the power, position and prestige the job brings. They are basically like royalty in their power hungry pea brains. They will sell out the people to maintain the drunkeness that this sort of power brings. And it is obvious that voting americans couldn't care less. If you have a guy running that is not of the two flavors, and would actually represent the people and obey their own legislative rules, the two flavors go tribal and vote to keep their own tribe in. We got the gov't we deserve I think. Tribalism over sanity is our motto. As DNS illustrated wonderfully in his post.

We just refuse to vote these jackwagons out. Tribalism. And ideology that is idiot-ology, which really matters more to many of us than actually fixing the problem that we have the power to fix. If you can't fix it with my own ideology, you ain't a gonna fix it! Knuckle walkers. Greatly aided by our propaganda outlets that have the nerve to call themselves the news. We are brainless many of us, and depend upon the talking head experts to think for us, many times. Because these guys represent our party,and if they say we ought to do this, by george we do it, and use them as the ultimate authority for our decisions. We pride ourselves in being individuals when are are anything but that. But the concept is pleasing.

We like the MONEY that they send home each and every year ...

We may not like it when they take money from a lobby group or some large company but we do like the pay off from them and will send them back.
We think that by sending the Rep or Senator back we keep some kind of Seniority in the house or senate because that is what they say, but it is a lie.
Take Young from Alaska... been there 1972... and did more before 1980 than he has done in the last 32 years, did not even run a primary campaign because HE IS THE SEATED REP FROM ALASKA and some how his years will get us some thing in the years to come.

We can change the White House or not but Till We CHANGE ALL 435 IN THE HOUSE AND THE 33 IN THE SENATE , and then in 2 years change another 33 in the Senate and then in 4 years change all in the house and the last 34 in the Senate it will be the same with NO changes.

Chloe - All Deborah Medina said was that she hadn't studied the issue and didn't know enough to discredit the truthers or birthers. She could have worded her answer better, but she never said what she believed. Those are national issues and she had been preparing for state issues since she was running for governor of Texas. She just didn't outright deny anything like Glenn expected her to do. Glenn was already in Perry's back pocket.

I like Medina's positions and her interpretation of the Constitution and think she would make a great governer. She is all over open carry, tough on crime and illegal immigration, lowering property taxes, and severely limiting imminent domain for the use of private business. Those are the big issues in TX and she is a pitbull when it comes to these issues.

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How all of that ties in:

Texas has a 2/3 Republican majority in the Texas congress and they don't seem to be able to get anything conservative passed. The incumbants are getting comfortable and ignoring the 2/3 majority mandate that the people are giving them. We have the same problems that the feds have, except we are not as liberal in TX as the average American.