Next Ballot: Should we raise taxes and give ourselves an equal pay raise?

Posted By: Adam 4 Comments
Seen on Greeblemonkey, and I just had to share. One more example of our government making a mockery of itself. Now, don't take this to mean I'm some sort of fascist or communist and hate the American government. For all of its bad, it does an awful lot of good… and I suppose the good outweighs the bad. And I'm proud to be American. But that doesn't justify breaking the rules and being apathetic about punishing those that break them. The part of the video where they explain that cable-tv airing of the sessions switch cameras during actual voting to hide the practice from the public shows knowledgeable and intentional disregard for the rules which, by the way, are called the law; and all of this just made me sick to my stomach. This is of course just self-governing gone wrong. There is nothing checked or balanced about this. My gut instinct was to say that anyone found guilty of voting for other representatives should lose their job, pension, and eligibility to vote (even down to the PTA level, you bastards!)… but I don't think that even that is punishment enough. I think that they should be forced to go door to door in the area of their constituency, sex-offender style, explaining that they lied to and cheated everyone in that area. If you were the speaker of the house, and it was your job to exact justice on representatives that break the law, what punishment would you assign them?

4 responses to “Next Ballot: Should we raise taxes and give ourselves an equal pay raise?”

  1. Yeah, but I highly doubt that the democrat that "conveniently" voted for his republican neighbor (or vice versa) really had his neighbors true opinion in mind when he voted. "Let's see, she wanted to vote no, and he said yes, him... hum, I'm not sure how he wanted to vote... I'll just give him a quick call to make sure I get it right..." Yeah... right!

    Susan

    Susan ~ Aug 4, 2008 at 9:57 PM

  2. Exactly!

    How about fingerprint scanners that you have to use before you can vote?

    Adam

    Adam ~ Aug 4, 2008 at 9:57 PM

  3. This is unbelievable!!!! Now, this is the Texas State Legislature. I THINK from what I've watched on CSPAN that the voting in the US House and Senate is a bit more controlled. I hope that some of these TX reps get fried over this! It's more than unconcionable... it's un-American. This is the stuff I'd expect to see in Latin America or Russia. Not the US. No system is perfect, but I'd expect ours to be better than this!

    Ed

    Ed ~ Aug 4, 2008 at 9:57 PM

  4. I remember learning about this in high school -- how representatives and senators will vote for each other. Sometimes, like in the senate where you have 2 people generally from the same party, if one can't make it they'll ask their counterpart to vote a certain way for them.

    Honestly, I'd be surprised if this doesn't go on in every State and even at the Federal level, at least to some degree.

    Adam

    Adam ~ Aug 4, 2008 at 9:57 PM