PR@108 & Baal@103,

Since I’ve been observing this situation for the last 40+ years, and becoming increasingly angry and alarmed and taxed every year, I’ve been trying to advocate that we re-instate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. It’s not like US isn’t at war, so it’s important that we get on War-footing for lots of reasons.

If we don’t seriously prosecute the perps as soon as possible, all this effort is wasted.

We might start by matching the defeated Congress-critters’ voting records with all their contributions and publishing the matrix online. Let the citizens point out the fraud -graft – corruption – theft involved. Enlist the “army” of Davids. Permit the pols to defend themselves.

If we are successful, we’ll take over the House with newbies, who’re not yet corrupted by special interests. They need to be the New Sheriffs in Town. If we can’t force our newly-elected reps to agressively police their own, we’ve accomplished nothing and wasted a lot of W’s bandwidth.

A Tea Party plank to rapidly “clean house” in WDC is a winner with everybody except the crooks. Staffers will be anxious to spill the goods, or be considered to be complicit. Absent such measures, we’ll never untangle the crimial enterprise we’ve enabled the political class to become.

Consequences.

Another plank: No legislation may be passed unless all members are present, and by casting a Yea or Nea, they attest under oath that they’ve read the proposed legislation, and sought expert advice on the economic ramifications, and polled their constituents.
Voila! 25 page bills, minus thousands of pages of payoffs. Just thinking green!