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59% Would Vote to Replace Entire Congress
Sunday, October 05, 2008 Email to a Friend
Congress was front and center in the national news last week and the American people were far from impressed. If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 59% of voters would like to throw them all out and start over again. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 17% would vote to keep the current legislators in office.
Today, just 23% have even a little confidence in the ability of Congress to deal with the nation’s economic problems and only 24% believe most Members of Congress understand legislation before they vote on it.
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When the Constitution was written, the nation’s founders expected that there would be a 50% turnover in the House of Representatives every election cycle. That was the experience they witnessed in state legislatures at the time (and most of the state legislatures offered just one-year terms). For well over 100 years after the Constitution was adopted, the turnover averaged in the 50% range as expected.
In the twentieth century, turnover began to decline. As power and prestige flowed to Washington during the New Deal era, fewer and fewer Members of Congress wanted to leave. In 1968, Congressional turnover fell to single digits for the first time ever and it has remained very low ever since.
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so it was fdr and his new deal nonsense that caused this.....interesting |
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| | | | I suppose thats one interpretation of the fact pattern. There could be others. Maybe it was after the abject failure of the government and big business to protect the interests of ordinary JoeSixpacks and leading us into the lnto the longest and deepest depression ever, people began to think that in a more complicated economy and world than the agrarian one our forefathers knew that having some people in office that actually understood the workings of government and how to govern might not be all that bad an idea. If the Founding Fathers thought not having term limits would be dangerous in the future they would have wrote them into the Constitution.
As for the ratings of Congress and people saying they would like to vote them all out this time? Well you know how that really goes -they mean that given the chance they would like to vote the other guys Representatives out, not their own. Incumbents will still win a huge majority of the seats with Dem's picking up 20-25 to add to their majority. |
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| | | | and if they had thought it was a good idea to have the govt tax the citizens to pay for charity for the poor, or corporate welfare programs, or health care, or retirement, or to have the govt control the economy....they would have written that in there as well...
but they didnt...
they only gave the federal govt. a limited and specific few things to be involved in....
the govt being involved in the mortgage business is what caused this current mess...had they followed the founding fathers, the govt wouldnt have forced banks to loan money to people that couldnt pay it back and we wouldnt be in this mess...
the answer isnt to bail out the banks, or bail out the people who took loans they couldnt pay for...the answer is to get the govt the heck out of things like that...
think about it, if the govt didnt have any say in mortgages....fannie and freddie wouldnt have had any reason to bribe obama, and frank, and dodd, to protect them....
its the easiest way to get all the lobby money out of washington....take away the power of the govt to be involved in stuff....then there is no reason for lobbyists to give politicians money.... |
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