GOP Sen. Candidate’s Modest Proposal: Move the Capital from D.C. to Nebraska

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Meet this year's Christine O'NotAwitch - where do they find these morons?
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Maybe the best fix for “This Town” is to just move it to another town. Case in point, a Republican running for Senate in Nebraska proposed a radical new idea: move the nation’s capital from Washington, D.C. to Nebraska in order to keep it as far away from the corruptive swamp that D.C. has developed a reputation of being.

In a new ad, Sass says that moving the capital may by the only cure to the “incredible ineffectiveness and dysfunction of both parties in Washington,” so that they can be closer to the Americans they’re supposed to be fighting for, not to mention they would “leave the lobbyists and the influence peddlers back east.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-sen-candidate’s-modest-proposal-move-the-capital-from-d-c-to-nebraska/

[SummerSnow]

1. Oh, so the problem is geographic?

Who knew? rofl: :


The stupid...still burning

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Due to a previously unknown rift in the Potomac, influence has been bubbling up into the air....

....of the District of Columbia. Lobbyists and politicians have collecting this influence and selling it to the others.


Makes perfect sense to me.

[Johonny]

3. He would pay for this massive move how?

[11 Bravo]

4. Cuts to Food Stamps, Social Security, Medicare, and Head Start.

[SummerSnow]

6. if someone had asked him that in public...

security would have escorted them out and the crowd would have called them socialist. That whats happens when politicians have no answers.

[GeorgeGist]

5. that should woo some votes.

[jmowreader]

7. The lobbyists and influence peddlers can't find the airport?

Last I checked, lobbyists and influence peddlers have the money to move from DC to Nebraska. Which they would do.

Now let's look at his spurious claim that moving from DC to Nebraska would move them closer to the people they're supposed to be fighting for. I did a little analysis here...the populations of Nebraska and the six states that surround it:

Nebraska: 1.856 million
South Dakota: 833,000
Wyoming: 576,000
Colorado: 5.18 million
Kansas: 2.886 million
Missouri: 6.022 million
Iowa: 3.074 million

Total: 20.427 million.

The population of the states on the east coast is 112.65 million.

Since there are 5.5 people on the East Coast for every one person in those seven states, who should they be fighting harder for?

[Brother Buzz]

8. So, like, Nebraska can send a non-voting member to the US House of Representatives...

and loose two republican Senators?

Kewel!

[Arcanetrance]

9. Well that's a sassy ad

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

10. Small-town Nebraska....

Small town Nebraska is just great, with kids riding bikes and playing football and going to church on Sunday morning....

BUT, BUT, BUT....

Isn't Nebraska part of America, the once great nation that is now a socialist cesspool thanks to Obama!?!?

What a joke!