[Vision2020] Missed votes

[lfalen]

Paul
Good points.It is a disgrace.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Paul Rumelhart godshatter at yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:00:41 -0700
To: Vision2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Missed votes

> I hope this topic becomes large enough and loud enough of an issue to 
> actually shame our Congressmen and women into actually participating 
> and/or voting occasionally.  I was on leave for a few days when I was at 
> the Naval Academy and toured DC.  This was in '86, I believe.  One of 
> the things I did was watch a session of Congress.  I don't remember if 
> it was the House of Representatives or the Senate.  It was a surreal 
> experience.  There were, literally, a dozen Congressmen there.  Almost 
> every one of them was reading the newspaper and paying absolutely no 
> attention to the Congressman that was speaking.  The one that was 
> speaking was expressing enthusiastic support for something, I don't 
> remember what.  Not one of the Congressmen that were there acted as if 
> they even heard what was going on.  That one visit trashed my view of 
> our legislative branch forever.  I was actually naive enough at one time 
> to think that the idiots running this country actually cared about 
> something.  If we're not paying these guys and gals to discuss and 
> debate the issues, let alone vote on them, then what are we paying them for?
> 
> Paul
> 
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