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January 13, 2006
Redemption?
The republicans in Congress have an opportunity. Reject handily the politics of gotchya, secret deals and political junkets. Reject the pay to play that has become Washington over the past 20 years.
Or do what you've been doing, and what you've accused the democrats of doing, at your own peril.
It's time for new congressional leadership in the house. Will it be a leader for our times, who will cut through the clutter, put the nation and the citizens first? - or will it be a member of Congress?
We should all be communicating to our local representatives what type of leader we expect them to elect to House leadership. They follow the leader, so we should play a role in determining who their leaders should be.
Tell congress to get it right.
Tim
Comments
Jerre,
You do have input. Ask your local rep. who they plan on voting for. You can also see who they voted for on the past.
If you dislike their choice, you can vote for someone else. If the other person is not of your party, you can join the fun by running in the primary.
I think the larger issue is that the general public at this point is not outraged by the scandal upon scandal ( Cunningham, Ney, Delay, Reed, suspension of ethics rules, destruction of the ethics committee, etc.) to pay attention to the fact that it is really the fault of the group that keeps voting to put a known criminal or friend to criminals in a position of leadership in the house.
Vote the criminals out!
Posted by: brian at January 16, 2006 12:03 AMI don't have enough money to contribute to a campaign to be heard by the elected official. And I sure as heck don't have enough to run for office.
Posted by: Jerre Reimers at January 17, 2006 03:03 PM
I can't remember the last time that congressional leadership was something that the voters had direct input to.
Posted by: Jerre Reimers at January 15, 2006 03:21 PM