That horrid smell coming from the Mid-Atlantic is the putrified rot coming off that
festering abscess on the Potomac.

Wow…what a surprise!  I was wondering why so many of them are out of touch
and just don’t care about their constituents!
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2011/10/they-dont-care-about-us/

One way is to equalize the playing field of candidates for office
by passing election reform and have public funding where each
candidate is prescribed to spend the same amount to get their
“qualifications” expressed to the public.  Each candidate gets the
same amount of television exposure.  Of course that won’t limit
Internet exposure but that is a dial in venue anyway and everyone
has to choose to be the recipient of political advertisements.  To
a somewhat similar degree are TV ads and one can simply turn the
dial when an ad comes on.  Personal wealth used for the purpose of gaining advantage over other candidates needs to be limited as well. 

Now the rub will be to get congressmen/women to pass such legislation. 
How can we force them to do that?  Isn’t coercion appropriate in some
cases?  If not appropriate, then useful?

ROME ON THE POTOMAC

The 1-percenters control the Senate. Who whudda thot?

2000 years after the Roman Empire and the US can’t do better in terms of its patrician state-hood?

In a word, Nope.

When wILL we ever learn that Wealth is not necessarily the first and foremost attribute of a representative to Congress. Worse yet, does anyone think that those 1-percenters care how much a cross-DC bus ride costs to the poorest who live there?

Moreover, the Republican variety are getting the sort of Health Care service that they would deny the American public at large. These are the dorks that prevented us from having a National Health Service by threatening Obama with filibustering his ObamaCare legislation to death.

Result? The private insurance companies are now richer than ever as that legislation induces people to seek health-care insurance.

Enough - the thought of it all makes one wanna puke.

This is not news.  It has been in the public domain for at least a
month.  I’ve posted it before that 40% of Congress are millionaires
and the rest are working on becoming millionaires. That is exactly
why legislation does not have much to do for the average income
American, and even less for those not on the income radar. Interest-
ing that only now it is coming to the attention to the journalists? 
Dooiingg! 

So then, what are we the people are going to do about it?  These people
need to be replaced as representatives of the people since they only pass
legislation that will support their own benefits.  We need to get them out
of our politics.  For surely it is OUR politics, not theirs.  It is our present
lives and future that is at stake.  We also need some litmus test to weed
out those who would run for office that has only their own self-interest
at heart.  Some political divining rod.

We need to get laws enacted that restricts Congressmen, Executive
officers (the President and his cabinet), and Supreme Court Justices from
making money besides the salary of their office and for five years at least
beyond their service of political office.  We the people must insist
through public protest that these rules of political office be passed and
enforced.

Over half are already with the rest soon to be! FREE BRADLEY MANNING AND TIM DECHRISTOPHER!!!!