jfuh
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jfuh said:Congressional approval rating is currently at 32%, lower then Bush's but then again a bit higher then Cheny's.
Yet typically 99% of congressman get re-elected. IS it just me or is something seriously f'd up about this? 99%!
Would you or would you not re-elect your congressman? Why or why not?
Do you think that the US should adopt a more multi-party friendly atmosphere where it's not just the opposite side of the same coin all the time?
RightatNYU said:When you ask people if they like Congress, they invariably say no. When you ask them if they like THEIR Congressperson, the one who brings home the pork, they invariably say yes.
And yes, I would, but he's retiring.
jfuh said:Congressional approval rating is currently at 32%; lower then Bush's but then again a bit higher then Cheny's.
Yet typically 99% of congressman get re-elected. IS it just me or is something seriously f'd up about this? 99%!
Would you or would you not re-elect your congressman? Why or why not?
Do you think that the US should adopt a more multi-party friendly atmosphere where it's not just the opposite side of the same coin all the time?
RightatNYU said:When you ask people if they like Congress, they invariably say no. When you ask them if they like THEIR Congressperson, the one who brings home the pork, they invariably say yes.
And yes, I would, but he's retiring.
jfuh said:I just don't get it.
Bring home the pork? We'll waste money that's ok, but you, you that other district, no you can not have pork.
Seriously f'd up.
This is exactly the point. Regardless republican, or democrat, it hardly makes any difference as to who is the congressman because they both suck.Scarecrow Akhbar said:No, of course not, she's Jane Harman, a Democrat.
Then again, she took a session off to buy the governor's seat once, and Steve Kuykendall became the Republican Congressthing from my district.
He did such a swell job of keeping Jane's seat warm, supporting all the issues she wanted to support that I didn't see much point in voting for either when he came up for election a second time. Neither, apparently, did a whole lot of Republicans.
jfuh said:This is exactly the point. Regardless republican, or democrat, it hardly makes any difference as to who is the congressman because they both suck.
We don't have a choice between good or bad but choices between bad and worse.
All these candidates are chizled to look practically identical and they don't give any real debates either.
Is this democracy?
May I inquire as to why not?Korimyr the Rat said:No, I wouldn't-- and I campaigned for her opponent during the 2004 election.
jfuh said:Congressional approval rating is currently at 32%, lower then Bush's but then again a bit higher then Cheny's.
Yet typically 99% of congressman get re-elected. IS it just me or is something seriously f'd up about this? 99%!
Would you or would you not re-elect your congressman? Why or why not?
Do you think that the US should adopt a more multi-party friendly atmosphere where it's not just the opposite side of the same coin all the time?
jfuh said:May I inquire as to why not?
Arthur Fonzarelli said:My congressman isn't running for re-election. Although if he were my vote would depend upon who his opponent was.
by the way - M. Oxley is my rep.
He announced his retirement from Congress on November 1, 2005, effective at the end of his term in 2007.
RightatNYU said:HEeeeeeeeeyyyy!
No idea Colorado was doing poorly. Doesn't Lockheed have a few nice facilities there? But then true, the whole state can't depend on just one company.Korimyr the Rat said:Wyoming's a mineral wealth state, but we're allowing corporations from other states-- mostly Texas-- to literally take the land right out from under our noses and keep the wealth from selling it.
Ms. Cubin is complicit in this, both being heavily invested in the businesses that are stealing our resources and having attained office with considerable assistance from then-Senator Cheney.
There are no jobs here for young people with educations, and we're practically begging people like Lowe's and Wal-Mart to expand their presence here to make up for it-- as if yet another $8/hour warehouse job makes up for the fact that Wyoming's turning into nothing more than a resort location for California liberals and celebrities with a hankering for dude ranching.
Ted Ladd was promising to help us keep some of that wealth here and to start encouraging real jobs to come here, and I like his views on education-- my biggest issue-- so I pushed for him.
Arthur Fonzarelli said:HEeeeeeeeeyyyy what?
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