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Re: Here's a quick summary of what's wrong with Congress
Nov 1, 2023, 8:43 AM
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Wow. Beat me to it with the Hawley thing. Also...you realize he's going All In on anti-trust legislation?
I'm left scratching my head here. Did some alien imposter crawl into Josh Hawley's skin and is now marionetting him around like a Josh suit? Because if he is, that alien is doing a really bad job convincing everyone he's the actual Josh Hawley.
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Re: Here's a quick summary of what's wrong with Congress
Nov 1, 2023, 8:47 AM
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dems want it illegal so Rs cant use it, knowing the Ds dont mind cheating and will ignore it
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Re: Here's a quick summary of what's wrong with Congress
Nov 1, 2023, 8:48 AM
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Republicans are the only honest politicians. You nailed it.
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Re: Here's a quick summary of what's wrong with Congress
Nov 1, 2023, 8:50 AM
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they do have a conscience
rand paul is the only honest fella up there lol
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What level of dumb does it take...
Nov 1, 2023, 9:05 AM
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To think one political party is filled with people who have a conscience and are being honest with big corporate donations and that the other party is filled with evil people who won't?
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Re: What level of dumb does it take...
Nov 1, 2023, 9:06 AM
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you will see who is evil when they vote on aid to israel
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Thats a helluva oxymoron right there.
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Nov 1, 2023, 8:58 AM
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There would be nothing quick about a post that encapsulated what’s wrong with Congress. It would take the combined long post writing superpowers of quozzel and Tiggity, with a guest appearance by Happycat.
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Re: Thats a helluva oxymoron right there.
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Nov 1, 2023, 9:08 AM
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This one isn't complicated though. Moneyed interests have far too much influence and Citizens United let them completely off the chain...and our politicians of both stripes increasingly just represent those interests instead of us. For the benefit of us rubes, they just do performative puppet theatre like we're complete derps and are actually buying it.
Regrettably, they've been right so far. This would go a loooooong way towards fixing that.
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It all starts with having draconian term limits, dropping a nuke on "K" street,
Nov 1, 2023, 9:51 AM
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limiting what the Government can regulate, requiring all regulation to be passed by the legislative branch to become law, and end by taking all profit out of politics. We have to get back to where serving in elected position requires some level of personal sacrifice instead of being a pathway to a life of generational wealth and luxury.
We have to completely dismantle the ability of people to have politics as a career. When elected office shifted from a a true civic duty requiring some level of personal sacrifice to becoming a lucrative "career", our political system and country started on a downward trajectory.
The career politicians have constructed a social class for themselves of political elites with its own ecosystem of lobbyists, media acolytes, and big money donors to permanently feed it money. In the process the career politicians grew our Federal Government to gargantuan proportions because the more influence the Federal Government wields - the more influence money they can consume from the money spigots of lobbyists, whole industries, big money people, and stitched together special interest groups.
If we truly had a limited Federal Government as intended by our Constitution, the ability for money to affect policy would be extremely limited because the Federal Government wouldn't have the ability to interfere in such things as what kind of light bulbs we can use.
What Hawley wants to do is a start but it is woefully inadequate to solve the whole money in politics problem we have.
IMO the starting point needs to be with draconian term limits and I do mean DRACONIAN. I'm talking about a maximum of 8 total cumulative years in elected or appointed Federal Government positions. If you spend 3 years as a political appointee anywhere in our Federal Government - then you only got 5 more years to be a House member or a partial term Senator or "serve" in any other capacity in our Federal Government.
Futhermore... For a minimum of 15 years from their last Federal paycheck, no former political appointee, Federally elected office holder, military flag officer, or former SES Government employee may work in the lobbying industry or other corporate positions whose functions include liaison with any entity in the Federal Government.
Start here and THEN go after the regulatory state and cutting off the campaign money spigots...
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