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    Kick Congress out of D.C...Another Brilliant Tea Party Suggestion

    In order to return power to the people, the Tea Party wants to force our representatives to return to the people. That's right. We want to kick Congress out of Washington, D.C.

    In the context of the Second American Revolution, there's no longer any need for every member of Congress to be in the Capitol building to participate in debate or to cast a vote.


    Instead, we propose a system in which senators and representatives live and work most of the time in their home districts and travel to Washington, D.C., only infrequently--at most once or twice a year. Think of the money we tax payers would save just alone in feeding those 535 people per year, not to mention the cost of their weekly or bi-monthly travel junkets.

    The technology exists to allow everything that a representative currently does in Washington to be done equally well from his or her home district. There's no need for a twenty-first-century legislature to be constrained by eighteenth-century technology.

    If tens of millions of Americans can telecommunicate, there's no reason why members of Congress can't attend committee and subcommittee meetings by videoconference. And in a world where we entrust the security of our bank accounts to small plastic cards and four-digit PINs, congressional votes can surely be taken over the Internet.

    Instituting a virtual Congress will have a variety of benefits. First, senators and representatives will be able to spend more time in the communities they represent. They'll be surrounded by skeptical constituents, rather than fawning supplicants. And they'll continually have to justify any political decision they make that's contrary to the will of the voters. In the recent past, we've seen cowardly lawmakers do everything in their power short of joining the federal Witness Protection Program to avoid listening to us.

    In 2003, Texas Democratic state legislators fled to Oklahoma to prevent the legislature from voting on a redistricting plan that they opposed, and on which they were going to be outvoted. In 2011, Indiana Democratic state legislators fled the state to Illinois, to prevent the legislature from reaching a quorum to vote on legislation unfavorable to public employee unions (who, not coincidentally, happened to be some of their biggest donors). And, most famously, also in 2011, a group of fourteen Wisconsin Democratic legislators fled the state (also to Illinois) to avoid a legislative quorum for a vote on newly elected governor Walker's Budget Repair Plan, also opposed by the public employee unions. All of these legislators, fleeing their states to prevent legislature from enacting the will of the people as expressed by duly elected representatives, represent a disturbing trend.


    And in the summer of 2009, as the Tea Party movement was really coming to a boil, Democratic lawmakers avoided constituents outraged at their support of obamacare by....simply avoiding their constituents. Members of Congress eschewed traditional town-hall-style meetings for carefully planned and scripted photo-ops with no question-and-answer sessions, afraid that Tea Partiers with flip cameras would expose their hypocrisy on YouTube for all the world to see.


    Excerpts "Tea Party Patriots"



    ps: Looks to me like its not just Rush Limbaugh, but the Tea Party itself who are on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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    If the constituents are that outraged..........vote the bums out. Hasn't quite happened yet.

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    Here is an organic social evolutionary theory...Tea party. Stay out of DC. Legislate from home. Phone in your opposition to legislation. Show us how it would be done.
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    gettin rid of the bums in DC sounds pretty good but we already a method in place: voting

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    Quote Originally Posted by PolWatch View Post
    gettin rid of the bums in DC sounds pretty good but we already a method in place: voting

    No where was it suggested we get rid of the useless bums, rather, it just specified we send them back to their districts where they would have to face their constituents rather than hide behind their desks in D.C. Don't you think by sending them home they would be more likely to listen to and abide by their constituents' concerns? I recall like it was yesterday when some of my Tea Party ancestors stormed a building in Boston and dragged an English redcoat tax collector out into the street and tar and feathered him so that he would listen to the complaints of the Tea Party Strong. You would probably have to believe that there is too much power located in the halls of that congressional building in D.C. in order to be angered into doing something about it.
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    It may put them at more of a distance from lobbyists...that's who they spend most of their time in Washington with. For that reason alone it would never happen.

    There is a machine in Washington, people are constantly in meetings...it just couldn't be done. Most action is probably decided over $400 lunches.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    It may put them at more of a distance from lobbyists...that's who they spend most of their time in Washington with. For that reason alone it would never happen.

    There is a machine in Washington, people are constantly in meetings...it just couldn't be done. Most action is probably decided over $400 lunches.
    It wouldn't ever happen, but it's still a surprisingly decent idea.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    It may put them at more of a distance from lobbyists...that's who they spend most of their time in Washington with. For that reason alone it would never happen.

    There is a machine in Washington, people are constantly in meetings...it just couldn't be done. Most action is probably decided over $400 lunches.
    You are making the Tea Party's point here. Send them home to their districts where lobbyists are less apt to visit, and where $400 lunches might be reduced to a $9.99 meal at Taco Bell across the street from a town hall. Constituents and tax payers alike would delight if such a measure was taken.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Libhater View Post
    You are making the Tea Party's point here. Send them home to their districts where lobbyists are less apt to visit, and where $400 lunches might be reduced to a $9.99 meal at Taco Bell across the street from a town hall.
    Yes, I understand that. My point isn't that it's a bad idea...my point is that it could never happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common Sense View Post
    Yes, I understand that. My point isn't that it's a bad idea...my point is that it could never happen.
    Perhaps you would join me in campaigning for Tea Party candidates all across the fruited plains of America to ensure we get these brilliant people elected into office.

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