Councilman

Congress Funds Study on How To Avoid Constituents, Stay in Office The Foundry
The story is short but important to know.
Any question about whether the Dims (no spell error) will listen to their constituents has been answered. What's worse is we payed to teach them how to ignore us. Welcome the new openness and inclusive responsive era of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, control.
Get a grip and know that you and your views unless you fall in goose step with the Dims you don't matter a tinkers damn.

Councilman

I just realized this is older than 48 hours sorry for the error.

American

Bad boy, take that!

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Morality Games

I don't see what's wrong with any of that; people who haven't had a question yet ought to be prioritized. As far as the 'offensive' thing goes, that's a pretty exaggerated implication.

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Councilman

You see this is exactly what is wrong in this Country today. It is the job of any elected official to represent and carry out the wishes of his or her constituents all of them all of the time. The story says, in other words, this report urges Congressmen not to actually interact with their constituents, but to avoid them altogether.
This clearly points out that what Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, have said about the new openness and bipartisan blah, blah, blah, was just another in a long line of lies. They have a Socialist/Communist agenda and they are not going to allow the will of "WE THE PEOPLE" interfere with it. This is a way to help their goose stepping pals learn to better ignore the people.
To claim this exaggerated implications is to ignore the facts that lead to this.

jackalope

Seems to me like the study is helping constituents connect effectively with Congress people.

The shouting that went on at town halls this summer was disgraceful. But why is this about 'the Dims'? The group is a nonpartisan group. They worked with Dem and Republican members of Congress; the meetings were held in the summer of 2006, and one in 2008. All of it was before the rowdiness that characterized the summer of 2009. Although, in light of it, I'm sure more people will be interested in the study.

Councilman

I would say the reason it's about the Dims is because at the Town Halls held by those who were willing to listen and honestly respond to their constituents there was no shouting. The people who went to those meetings based on the hours of video available made it clear the elected officials were there to give lip service and felt they could lie to the people who were better informed about the contents of HR 3200 than any member of Congress in attendance. There was a great deal of teying to redirect questions and or to answer questions that were never asked and it didn't work.
The problem no is that with the 1990 page fiasco that was just released and already had a number of pages added to it the picture will be even murkier and create more unrest with the majority of Americans who don't want big brother nanny state interfering in their insurance they have to cover the approximately 12 million who have no coverage. It seems that the 14 million or what ever number Obama pull out of then air was nonsense. The people not covered today could easily be covered quite nicely with a tiny fraction of the cost projected under the Obama style plan from the house or anything coming from the Senate.
just think what it would have done for the economy if all or just half of the stimulus money had been given directly to the people in increments spread over say a whole year. The economy would be booming by now and thousands of home foreclosures could have been avoided and some banks might not have failed.
But no that makes too much sense so now we have a dictatorial government making plans to force the people to pay for things they don't need or want and those in power are and have been taught to ignore them and tell them their too stupid to know what's best for them. Oh yes and they are taught to do it and still stay in power when they are done. Real flippen nice.