[Vision2020] Missed votes

[Kai Eiselein, Editor]

I absolutely agree.
The ones who were there probably couldn't get good tee times to schmooze 
with with their donors and lobbyists.
Or the junkets were all full.

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From: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:11 PM
To: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com>; "Vision2020" 
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Missed votes

> 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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Kai Eiselein
Editor, Latah Eagle