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59% Would Vote to Replace Entire Congress

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Posted by tipper 2008-10-06 06:30|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Only 59%? It would be nice to see a really strong "throw the bums out" movement emerge this season.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-10-06 07:59|| 2008-10-06 07:59|| Front Page Top

#2 59% = Trunks and independents. You think the Donks will turn out their own like the Trunks did two years ago? They understand its all about POWER, no matter how disastrous its implementation by their boys has been.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-06 08:19|| 2008-10-06 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I would keep a few, but for the most part I think we need to reboot and reformat all of Washington DC.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-06 09:34|| 2008-10-06 09:34|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd keep Kenny Marchant R-TX. He consistently scores near 100% at Club for Growth. And his voting record gets my seal of approval. He voted NO on Amnesty and the Bail Out. Generally, he votes just the way I'd ask him to.

Posted by Spats Glogum1808 2008-10-06 09:37|| 2008-10-06 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, and I'd consider keeping Cornyn, but Kay Baily H. has got to go. Friggin illegal alien loving RINO!

Posted by Spats Glogum1808 2008-10-06 09:38|| 2008-10-06 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Baily = Bailey

I work 3rd shift...been a LONG night. Sorry.

Posted by Spats Glogum1808 2008-10-06 09:40|| 2008-10-06 09:40|| Front Page Top

#7 I can hardly wait to vote against my first-term Congressman Murphy (Dimwit-PA) who kissed Nancy Pelosi's butt, trailed around following her lead, and then had the audacity to locally wring his hands over the "sweeteners" tacked on to the Senate's bail out bill before he voted "yes" on it.

Posted by Darrell 2008-10-06 10:16|| 2008-10-06 10:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry, I should clarify that I was speaking of idiot Patrick Murphy, not the respectable Tim Murphy. Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) did the right thing and voted against both bail out bills.

Posted by Darrell 2008-10-06 10:20|| 2008-10-06 10:20|| Front Page Top

#9 59% = Trunks and independents. You think the Donks will turn out their own like the Trunks did two years ago?

We do those things and then we get screwed over worse.

Posted by Tranquil Mechanical Yeti 2008-10-06 10:32|| 2008-10-06 10:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Are we talking voting them out or shooting them?

Posted by SteveS 2008-10-06 11:28|| 2008-10-06 11:28|| Front Page Top

#11 This is bogus. Americans have long wanted to "throw out congress", but they don't vote for congress.

When you ask them if they want to throw out *their* congressman, they invariably say "No, we like him."

"It's those other congressmen we can't stand."

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-06 11:32|| 2008-10-06 11:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Dump the whole damned lot of them. My congressman voted against the bailout twice and he's generally very conservative and a real strong 2nd Amendment man. He's go to go as well. If he asked why, my answer would be, "You've had your trotters in the trough long enough. Let someone else have a turn."

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-06 11:47|| 2008-10-06 11:47|| Front Page Top

#13 With the likelyhood of a Democratic President I'd sure love to see a Republican Congress. It would be interesting to see how everything was the fault of the PResident for 8 years and suddenly the President is blame-free and the Congress is somehow in the drivers seat for everything that is wrong.

Of course I'd love to have both parties Dem so their policies could be put up to the clean light of day but the damage that would do, well fear of the damage their policies would do scare me.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-06 12:28|| 2008-10-06 12:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Jail them and institute term limits. Then have an election.

Posted by Hellfish 2008-10-06 12:39|| 2008-10-06 12:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Anyone want to predict the %age of Congressional incumbents who will win reelection? I don't think it will change much, particularly for the Dems.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-10-06 15:09|| 2008-10-06 15:09|| Front Page Top

#16 If the RCCC had a decent campaign it would. Something like the Contract with America that targets specific legislative goals that every trunk campaigns on would do the trick and establish a mandate. It's much better to campaign for something other than job security.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-10-06 15:33|| 2008-10-06 15:33|| Front Page Top

#17 Anonymoose hit the nail on the head in #11.
When I was in college in the 60's one of my professors said that the purpose of democracy was to provide for an orderly transition of government. That is why he always voted against the incumbent. That still makes sense today.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2008-10-06 20:40|| 2008-10-06 20:40|| Front Page Top

#18 With a 10% approval rating one would think
it would be more like "90% would vote to replace the entire congress".

Posted by GK 2008-10-06 23:25|| 2008-10-06 23:25|| Front Page Top

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