"Under that scenario, Congress would only be in session six more weeks this year."
reader casually turns around and consults calender where he's indisputably confronted with the fact that, yes, it is July 10th.
What the sam hill! Let's just do 'em a favor and make the job part time like it used to be-at half the salary!
So we elect a guy to the House and they then take half a year off out of a two year term and get paid for it? The guy in the Senate amoritizes it over six years and I'm supposed to feel better? Everybody call your boss and float the idea of taking the rest of the year off.
We're on the brink of war with Iran and these guys want a sabbatical to go bass fishing?
This Congress came in vowing change in '06, claiming a mandate for change from the American people, claiming a mandate to rein in a President run amok, and they're waiting for nature to take it's course? That's a balance of power between the legislative and the executive branches?
In another thread, Cam and I had a brief discussion about the Boland amendment and declarations of war. This is about the perfect example of how Congress has grown complacent, let's the executive do what ever it wishes, and thinks it's just fine to cry about it afterwards. These guys fill the airwaves every night complaining about a Bush administaration that is keeping them out of the loop and in the dark. I'm guessing it's not the Bush administration or none of these guys have phone service on their bass boats!
What are you, kidding me? I'd think they could fill up at least a couple of weeks here and there deciding to maybe, just maybe, consider that social security is broke and there ain't no more money comin' in and a whole passel of peeps retirin'.
Baseball season isn't half over. Football season will be well into the playoffs when they come back. And we think that atheletes are over-paid? Even though they've been out of it since the start of the season, at least the Kansas City Royals are going to play out the string! By this logic the Dolphins wouldn't even take the field this year! Well, it's not looking like it's going to be much of a season. We think we'll just opt out, rest up, do some personal, home type things and maybe be fresh and ready for the following season. We'll be working a bit at home and if you need us for a weekend scrimmage we'll see if we can get a few of the guys together. It'll give the stadium crew a chance to slap some
paint on the bleachers. And we'll actually save money since, even though everyone on the team will get paid we'll be able to lay off the vendors.
Are they going to shut down the Senate cafeteria, etc... Or do we get to pay for cooks and bus-boys with nothing to do? I get it, we won't have to air-condition the Capitol all summer and we can turn the heat down low in the fall, the energy savings will probably balance the budget.
WHAT ARE THEY, FREAKIN' NUTS? !!!!!!!!!!!
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