| Author | Message | ||
     Xb12mel |
Should we buy them larger screen computers - or - a ticket home, permanently? This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms. No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc.  House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr. , R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP) The guy sitting in the row in front of these two.... he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores. These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct. 1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on.... | ||
| Hootowl |
Why not play solitaire? There's a Republican speaking, and they've already made up their minds. The other side probably does the same. +1 vote them all out. | ||
| Hex |
Maybe we should just get rid of elections, doesn't seem to be working. | ||
| Kenm123t |
Obama is working on it lol | ||
| Hex |
Found the same behavior in yesterday's SacBee, real not virtual.  | ||
| Teeps |
The rumor is she has dementia and is about to be maneuvered out of office. Below is from KFI640s John & Ken show. http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/jk2010.html It's Time to Wheel Wiggins Out! Tell the staffholes of State Senator Pat Wiggins-Santa Rosa that she should resign if she is losing her marbles! Capitol Office State Capitol, Room 4081 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 651-4002 Fax: (916) 323-6958 Wiggins outburst shocks Senate hearing Sen. Pat Wiggins shocked onlookers in a packed committee hearing in Sacramento this week when she screamed repeatedly about a water canister that had gone unfilled and she appeared to advance threateningly toward another senator. Only after security staff moved in and an aide for Wiggins intervened did the 69-year-old Santa Rosa Democrat end the tirade that lasted several minutes. It looked like she was going after another senator and totally disrupting the committee, said a Senate staffer who witnessed the incident. They tried to proceed as best as they could given the situation. It was pretty shocking. The episode, which occurred Wednesday during a meeting of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, represented the latest disturbing outburst for Wiggins, whose odd behavior over the past two years has led to concern she is seriously ill. | ||
| Ll7 |
Ron Paul is the only one who make any sense to me. I hope he runs for president again in 2012. | ||
| Swordsman |
Yeah, I've already decided that come election time, not one incumbent will get my vote. Now, in this tiny thread on a motorcycle forum, there are 3 of us ready to do so. Wonder how many nation wide have the same idea? ~SM | ||
| Hootowl |
"Wonder how many nation wide have the same idea?" Anybody that hasn't been living under a rock for the last 10 years. OK, maybe longer. | ||
| Xb12mel |
lol... I've always questioned the decision NOT to impose term limits on Congress. Problem is, when you talk to your Representative about it, you get a biased self preservationist answer. At least in my racially designated district. (oops, did I just admit to that in public?) So much for political correctness. (Message edited by xb12mel on March 03, 2010) | ||
| Just_ziptab |
And these people work how many days.....for what kind of pay? | ||
| Brumbear |
You can make that 4. I won't stop until they get it right or I die. I just have to try. | ||
| Teeps |
Swordsman, count me in too, make that 5. Everything starts out as one......... | ||
| Kyrocket |
This has a familiar ring. Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 10:06 am: -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ You will rarely, if ever, see me post in a political thread. It's just something I stay away from...that being said; I have been saying for months now that the only way anything is going to change is to vote all these career politicians out of office. Even if it means taking a list of current office holders with you to the polls just to vote against them and get them out. Just clean house. When someone, especially an elected official, laughs at the idea of opening a meeting with the pledge while we have THOUSANDS of troops protecting their rights overseas is just sickening. So yeah, count me in too. | ||
| Wheelybueller |
Me to!  The pile is growing | ||
| Swordsman |
Okay! So let's try this.... http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=app_2373072738 &gid=341196980683#!/group.php?v=wall&gid=341196980 683 I made a Facebook group to promote the idea. Any of you that are on there join up, and then invite your friends. How cool would it be to really fan the flames and knock a few of those jokers off their pedestals? I did a search for a pre-existing group of similar intent, but couldn't find one, so I guess it's up to us. ~SM | ||
| Cravacor |
So what, you guys don't play solitaire, look at FB/ESPN/porn and rant on BadWeb at work all day too? | ||
| Cravacor |
Pretty amazing that we hold the power to have a revolution simply by VOTING, but it has yet to happen. Voter turn out is pi$$-poor and the same old hacks just keep getting re-elected. The founding fathers would be disappointed in what a bunch of slack-a$$es we turned out to be. Bread & circus boys... | ||
| Bobbuell1961 |
I've already decided that come election time, not one incumbent will get my vote. Been doing it for years, too many dumb'f***s vote the party line or say my guys good, all the others are the problem | ||
| Xb12mel |
Grass root movement at it's best! | ||
| Coops53233 |
A lot of the anger in this thread seems to be directed generally at national-level legislators who may or may not actually represent the districts of those posting. I'm curious... How does the strategy of "vote no" help accomplish your objective? Also, did anyone notice that the photos posted in this thread actually depict State Legislators, and not "Members of Congress" as posited by the OP? | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
So what, you guys don't play solitaire, look at FB/ESPN/porn and rant on BadWeb at work all day too? Nope, I'm a truck driver. As for the rest of those on here who browse the internet at work, They're not being paid by the public to look out for the public's interest. The fellow on Facebook? well he could be looking for some relevant information on an opponents page. The one looking at the Baseball scores? He might be checking them out with a view to making some biting comment about an opponents local team. The ones playing solitaire? They're just taking the piss, f**k them off out of there, pronto! | ||
| Hootowl |
"I'm curious... How does the strategy of "vote no" help accomplish your objective?" If your objective is to stop a massive increase in the size and cost of the Federal government, it does. | ||
| Coops53233 |
I'm all for Members of Congress voting against heavy-handed legislation that won't solve any of the problems it claims to, and instead creates several new ones. But since this thread is talking about citizens and their votes on election day, allow me to rephrase. How does voting no (voting against all incumbents) accomplish your objective? | ||
| Xb12mel |
(IMO) part of the problem is complacency. There are many members of congress, be they Representatives or Congressmen or Senators on both the State and National level who have been in Position longer then the average person on this BB has been alive. Take for example John McCain. He's been a seated Representative and / or Senator since the 1983. He's actually having to "work" campaign in the primaries and he seems shocked that he doesn't have his party's unconditional support. Well, I don't live in AZ but I'd have to wonder... How were you representing me while you were traveling around the Country looking for your next job? (not once, but twice?) Congress is replete with members who act as if they are entitled to the position. This can only come from complacency. In part because of their previous successes and the fact that, for the most part, they are unchallenged. Nothing corrupts like absolute power. This is why we limit our President to two terms. It is folly to think that a person who has the same "title" for 30 years doesn't have some sense of entitlement. It use to be a person went to Washington, did their Civic Duty and then went back home to the "Private Sector". That is unheard of in today's Career Politician's Handbook and until "WE" put limits, either through legislation or Votes, it will continue to get worse. So, "How does voting against all incumbents accomplish MY objectives?" Hopefully, it sends a message that I'm not paying you to fill a seat. I want results for my Tax Dollars and I for one am not happy with the results I've been getting to date. |
