Confessions Of A Congressman

[unshelledpilot]

Confessions of a congressman: 9 secrets from the inside - Vox

Interesting read. Highlights some of the stuff we already knew about.

 

[Twangbanger]

Unpossible!

"3) Almost everyone in Congress loves gerrymandering

Without crooked districts, most members of Congress probably would not have been elected. According to the Cook Political Report, only about 90 of the 435 seats in Congress are "swing" seats that can be won by either political party. In other words, 345 seats are safe Republican or Democratic seats. Both parties like it that way. So that's what elections are like today: rather than the voters choosing us, we choose the voters. The only threat a lot of us incumbents face is in the primaries, where someone even more extreme than we are can turn out the vote among an even smaller, more self-selected group of partisans.."

Nope, not listening. It only benefits Republicans. (Sticks fingers in ears). I heard it on INGO.

 

[hornadylnl]

Unpossible!

"3) Almost everyone in Congress loves gerrymandering

Without crooked districts, most members of Congress probably would not have been elected. According to the Cook Political Report, only about 90 of the 435 seats in Congress are "swing" seats that can be won by either political party. In other words, 345 seats are safe Republican or Democratic seats. Both parties like it that way. So that's what elections are like today: rather than the voters choosing us, we choose the voters. The only threat a lot of us incumbents face is in the primaries, where someone even more extreme than we are can turn out the vote among an even smaller, more self-selected group of partisans.."

Nope, not listening. It only benefits Republicans. (Sticks fingers in ears). I heard it on INGO.

Just don't do it in Little League.

 

[Twangbanger]

Now axe me this - does this sound like it was written by someone who believes in smaller government:

"...Congress has never been more than a sausage factory. The point here isn't to make us something we're not. The point is to get us to make sausage again..."

"...Get us making sausage again?" Wow, sounds like an appeal to pork. There's a rallying cry for Liberty if ever I heard one.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Now axe me this - does this sound like it was written by someone who believes in smaller government:

You got it. He is lighting up all the Democrat bulbs.