From Rasmussen:
Just 32% of Likely U.S. Voters now believe their local congressional representative deserves to be reelected, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Thirty-nine percent (39%) think their local congressman does not deserve reelection. Twenty-nine percent (29%) are undecided.
And yet what’s the recidivism — excuse me; retention — rate for Congresscritters running for reelection? About a million and six percent, if memory serves.
So here’s a little idea you can share with your friends and families and coworkers. On election day 2014, try voting for the other guy. It’s radical, I know, but it just might work. Better yet, vote for the other guy of the same party during the primaries.
What’s that, you say? There’s nobody running against him in the primaries? Then why don’t you do it? Raise a little money, file the paperwork, and run for Congress.
Have you seen the creatures who do manage to get elected? Of course you have — that’s why only a third of you think your local creature deserves reelection. You couldn’t possibly be any worse. And at the very least maybe you’ll put a little fear of God into your Congressman, simply by providing him with the tiniest amount of job insecurity.
We’ve been living with job insecurity for five years now. Isn’t it time for politicians to share the pain?
My political philosophy has always been, “Tro da bums out.” My Congressional district troed out an establishment pol and put in a fire-breathing Tea Partier the last election. Step by step.
That’s because most Americans today want their cake and want to eat it too – they want programs but they want others to pay. They want representatives who will not be fiscally sound and then want to blame them when the bills come in. This trend is very dangerous for our freedom, because it gives the Thugocrat-in-Chief even more motivation to seize power and bypass Congress, the people, and the Constitution.
I’ve been gerrymandered out of existence. They’ve managed the con of all cons; they draw the lines and reap all the benefit.
one useless man is a disgrace, two are a law firm, a group of three or more is a congress of the united states.