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Thu Feb-14-08 01:03 PM
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| Why do we keep paying 3 Senators their salary when they just campaign endlessly for years and don't |
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show up for work? Where else but Congress could you get full pay and benefits for 2 years while not doing your job at all?
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| ClassWarrior
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Thu Feb-14-08 01:10 PM
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| 1. Because that's how the system works. Be careful about misplaced... |
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...broad-brush smears of Congress. They can be damaging to our cause: The intellectually lazy and politically dangerous characterization of Congress as an inept community emboldens would-be tyrants. Progressives are often as guilty of this narrative sin as conservatives...http://www.rockridgenation.org/blog/archive/2007/07/24/the-dangerous-framing-of-congress-as-an-inept-community/?searchterm=ineptNGU. |
| billyoc
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Thu Feb-14-08 01:19 PM
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| 2. Besides, these three senators are the only ones that many people |
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have ever *heard* about. Ask 5 people to name a senator besides Clinton, McCain or Obama. :shrug:
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