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Mitchell, Paul Continue Efforts to Block Congressional Pay Raise

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Looks like Ron Paul is still practicing what he preaches, unlike a President, a President to be, and the new President's former campaign opponent.

Kudos to Ron Paul, who never compromised his values. Stuff that pay raise up their collective asses, Ron. They don't deserve it.

Final word - Hey GOP, you picked the wrong guy.

Article is here.
 
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Looks like Ron Paul is still practicing what he preaches, unlike a President, a President to be, and the new President's former campaign opponent.

Kudos to Ron Paul, who never compromised his values. Stuff that pay raise up their asses, Ron. They don't deserve it.

Article is here.

He should have been President.

Go Ron Paul! Show them what a real Constitutional Conservative is made of.
 
Looks like Ron Paul is still practicing what he preaches, unlike a President, a President to be, and the new President's former campaign opponent.

Kudos to Ron Paul, who never compromised his values. Stuff that pay raise up their asses, Ron. They don't deserve it.

Final word - Hey GOP, you picked the wrong guy.

Article is here.
At least we have a few politicians left with integrity.
 
He should have been President.

Go Ron Paul! Show them what a real Constitutional Conservative is made of.

Problem is, they wouldn't know what a real Conservative is, even if he came up and bit them in the ass.
 
Problem is, they wouldn't know what a real Conservative is, even if he came up and bit them in the ass.
no "even if" about it. Ron Paul already did it.
 
Pandering to the same crowd as always.:roll:
 
Kudos to Mitchell as well for this. There is no reason that any of the goofs in office deserve more money for doing such a **** job as of late.
 
Kudos to Mitchell as well for this. There is no reason that any of the goofs in office deserve more money for doing such a **** job as of late.
I say do a pay rate based on the job performance, let the scale reset every new congress, with merit based pay, a demerit system to keep these guys honest, a fine system, and any other thing we can come up with. The job they have done deserves a boot in the ass, not a pay raise.
 
I say do a pay rate based on the job performance, let the scale reset every new congress, with merit based pay, a demerit system to keep these guys honest, a fine system, and any other thing we can come up with. The job they have done deserves a boot in the ass, not a pay raise.

How on earth would you administer this program?
 
Pandering to the same crowd as always.:roll:

The same crowd? Just us pissants, of course - Or at least what you and the other co-call "mainstream" Big Government Republicans think of as pissants. You forget that us pissants all voted for and supported Ronald Reagan. You forget that us pissants all helped "vote in" the Gingrich revolution. We were mainstream Conservatives who solidly supported the Republican party, which happened to have a big tent at the time. Then the GOP went for big government and big spending, with a "my way or the highway" attitude. Gutted was the Conservatism that took them to the top, and enabled them to reclaim the government from the big government, big spending Democrats. They became what they had vanquished. Us pissants were marginalized and called freaks and nuts, while the real nuttery was the new Republican party, which drove our economy off a cliff.

Yes, we are pissants, but we ARE a solid part of Conservative constituency and, frankly, without us, it is going to be very dark and very cold in a Republican party without power. You had better find a way to once again include us, along with some Conservative principles, unless you want to throw in the towel to the Democrats. The ball is in your court. A continued arrogant attitude of the party towards us pissants will result in the slow death of the Republican party.
 
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The same crowd? Just us pissants, of course - Or at least what you and the other co-call "mainstream" Big Government Republicans think of as pissants. You forget that us pissants all voted for and supported Ronald Reagan. You forget that us pissants all helped "vote in" the Gingrich revolution. We were mainstream Conservatives who solidly supported the Republican party, which happened to have a big tent at the time. Then the GOP went for big government and big spending, with a "my way or the highway" attitude. Gutted was the Conservatism that took them to the top, and enabled them to reclaim the government from the big government, big spending Democrats. They became what they had vanquished. Us pissants were marginalized and called freaks and nuts, while the real nuttery was the new Republican party, which drove our economy off a cliff.

Yes, we are pissants, but we ARE a solid part of Conservative constituency and, frankly, without us, it is going to be very dark and very cold in a Republican party without power. You had better find a way to once again include us, along with some Conservative principles, unless you want to throw in the towel to the Democrats. The ball is in your court. A continued arrogant attitude of the party towards us pissants will result in the slow death of the Republican party.

Melodrama aside, Congressional pay is one of the least important issues on the planet. As much as everyone likes to bitch about it, Congressmen (along with most high level government officials) should get paid significantly more than they currently do. Ron Paul and this other guy probably agree, but they're just throwing **** fits about it because they know that it makes people like those in this thread feel some inexplicable sense of pride because two douchebags in Congress are "fighting the man," despite failing miserably in pretty much every one of their attempts. This type of unthinking populist garbage is why Huckabee would have been an awful president, Edwards would have been worse, and Paul would have been even ****tier.

And enough with the "sticking up for the US taxpayer" garbage. We could double the salary of every member of Congress and it would would cost less than it costs to supply toilet paper to the Rayburn building. This is so incredibly unimportant.
 
Melodrama aside, Congressional pay is one of the least important issues on the planet. As much as everyone likes to bitch about it, Congressmen (along with most high level government officials) should get paid significantly more than they currently do. Ron Paul and this other guy probably agree, but they're just throwing **** fits about it because they know that it makes people like those in this thread feel some inexplicable sense of pride because two douchebags in Congress are "fighting the man," despite failing miserably in pretty much every one of their attempts. This type of unthinking populist garbage is why Huckabee would have been an awful president, Edwards would have been worse, and Paul would have been even ****tier.

And enough with the "sticking up for the US taxpayer" garbage. We could double the salary of every member of Congress and it would would cost less than it costs to supply toilet paper to the Rayburn building. This is so incredibly unimportant.

But do they deserve it? There is more to it than just the pay itself. It is the principle behind it. You don't reward people for doing a crappy job, except in government, and that is what I would like to see changed.
 
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Yes, we are pissants, but we ARE a solid part of Conservative constituency and, frankly, without us, it is going to be very dark and very cold in a Republican party without power. You had better find a way to once again include us, along with some Conservative principles, unless you want to throw in the towel to the Democrats. The ball is in your court. A continued arrogant attitude of the party towards us pissants will result in the slow death of the Republican party.
And your constituency has been left in the dust. The last election should have taught you that the USA has moved left and is going to continue on that path. Conservatives might as well get used to it. :2wave:
 
And your constituency has been left in the dust. The last election should have taught you that the USA has moved left and is going to continue on that path. Conservatives might as well get used to it. :2wave:

No - The Republican party itself was left in the dust, and in the dust is where it will stay until it goes back to its Conservative roots. Don't believe it? Then just look around you.
 
And your constituency has been left in the dust. The last election should have taught you that the USA has moved left and is going to continue on that path. Conservatives might as well get used to it. :2wave:
lol, the pendulum swings back come back, it always comes back. Nothing for a conservative to feel here. :2wave
 
His holdup is screwing over the ranks of judges who left really lucrative careers and can't afford to join the ranks because of the between 50 an 85% pay cut they take. Great job Paultard.

And you wonder why so many judges leave each year to go into private judging.


Oh, and let's deny them their COLA AGAAAIN while we are at it...
 
No - The Republican party itself was left in the dust, and in the dust is where it will stay until it goes back to its Conservative roots. Don't believe it? Then just look around you.
Well, lets see. Looking around me, I see an anesthesia machine, patient monitor, and surgical bed. There is the computer I am playing on while waiting for the patient. Many other items but none make me think the conservative movement is going to make a comeback in your life time. :rofl
 
Well, lets see. Looking around me, I see an anesthesia machine, patient monitor, and surgical bed. There is the computer I am playing on while waiting for the patient. Many other items but none make me think the conservative movement is going to make a comeback in your life time. :rofl
Conservativism is not built on machines (and other electronics) but on the human ingenuity that invented, or allowed to come into existence, those inventions that you see around you.
 
Pandering to the same crowd as always.:roll:

It's no wonder we are in such economic straights when the pursuit of sensible fiscal policy is pandering.
 
Conservativism is not built on machines (and other electronics) but on the human ingenuity that invented, or allowed to come into existence, those inventions that you see around you.
Dani told me to look around me and I would see the truth of his wisdom. I looked around and it was not revealed.

BTW, most anesthesia equipment is now designed and/or built in Finland, Netherlands, Japan, China, and other EU and Asian countries. I don't think you can say the ingenuity of conservatives has anything to do with their existence. ;)
 
Dani told me to look around me and I would see the truth of his wisdom. I looked around and it was not revealed.

BTW, most anesthesia equipment is now designed and/or built in Finland, Netherlands, Japan, China, and other EU and Asian countries. I don't think you can say the ingenuity of conservatives has anything to do with their existence. ;)

Yeah, Bush didn't see it either, but then his party was beaten up badly. Bush sees it now.
 
Go back and read the comments from the Republicans and Democrats.

No difference, they just don't get it.

Please just drink more coolaid while the founders turn over in the grave.
 
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