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Vote The Bums Out
October 28th, 2008
The polls continually show that Congress is rated low, and that people are dissatisfied with Congress. Right now their approval ratings are at an all time low – in the teens. Yet, when people were surveyed recently, being asked should their congressmen be re-elected; the majority said yes.
This is the problem!
Everybody thinks the Congress is terrible, oh, except their congressmen. Theirs is the one that’s not doing and voting the same way all the other ones are. There are only a handful of people in congress who fit such a description; yet most get such reverence from their constituents.
Some how people think that you can keep sending the same do nothing, compromised, corporate bought, self-serving people back to Washington, not only for years, but for decades, and some how by continuously doing the same thing your going to get a different result.
Americans fortunes are the people’s own fault. You know why the congress doesn’t do anything; because they don’t have to! What are you going to do about it; mostly nothing, and they know it. People ask why doesn’t the congress do what the people want. Why should they? If they do what corporations want they get free trips, gifts, and major paying jobs if and when they decide to leave congress. The odds are they can vote against the people and still keep their position in congress; so they gamble, and most of the time win in thinking they can get away with it.
Right now we have another opportunity to turn the congress over, get new people in there who aren’t mired in the ways of old. Maybe even some idealist might be good over jaded, compromised politicians.
I voted this past Saturday. I started to think at the time of the bailout package that I might vote against everyone that voted for it. Something had to be done to address the financial problems; but not just anything, and not that. Not a bill loaded up with pork barrel ear marks, almost unrestrict money for banks and financial institutions that caused the problem, and little for struggling tax payers, and business that did the right thing.
I thought about it, and I decided yeah, that’s exactly what I’m going to do. So not only did I vote for Lamar Alexander’s senate opponent Bob Tuke, which I would have likely done regardless; I also wrote in “no confidence” in Jim Coopers house race; a man I’ve voted for 3 times in a row (didn’t really know the other folks on the ballot to be able to vote for them either). The meeting I had with him back in the summer on Darfur wasn’t making me jump up and down for him either.
Even if enough voters aren’t on board with what I’m doing to turn the bums out of office; maybe there are enough who will do the same so that more of the bums have close races so that they’ll know they are on thin ice.
One thing that’s for sure, perpetually doing the same thing with the same people and expecting that you’re ever going to get a different result is insanity.
So consider joining me in voting your bums out.
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I think people, in general, ignore their civic duties to vote based on what their candidates do. Since I cannot say exactly when this became the rule, I can say that shortly after 1945, I believe that people started more and more getting their information via TV and 2nd, 3rd hand. As a result, people got less informed. Once the 1970’s hit, with the upheaval of the 1960’s, and a floundering economy and an impeachment looming, people lost faith, and lo, this is what we got.
We have a VP nominee that shouldn’t run a Dairy Queen, but some feel “has spunk.” We got a Prez that was again found lacking…Congress: divisive, yet for show. They know how easy they got it.
SO I agree we should throw them out, but we also need to get candidates on the ballot that can be like us, for us and of us.
Good analysis Jason. I was just thinking a little while ago about the need to have better and stronger candidates to run against these people. I think forming local state party’s to run on local issues would be a good way to build up enough support to mount decent challenges.
There are certainly some other things as well, but that’s just one thougt.