Skink
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-18-09 11:33 PM
Original message |
Do Senators represent their states anymore? |
MadBadger
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-18-09 11:34 PM
Response to Original message |
atreides1
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-18-09 11:35 PM
Response to Original message |
|
When the vote for mandated health care premiums takes place.
|
leftstreet
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-18-09 11:37 PM
Response to Reply #2 |
4. I agree, we're about to find out |
|
Healthcare costs are crippling state budgets right now and it will only get worse
|
Rhiannon12866
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-18-09 11:36 PM
Response to Original message |
|
I wonder if the huge turnout at the free health clinics in conservative areas will affect the vote there. :-(
|
kenny blankenship
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-18-09 11:39 PM
Response to Original message |
5. They represent the RICH PEOPLE of their states - same as ALWAYS |
|
Edited on Fri Dec-18-09 11:42 PM by kenny blankenship
just that nowadays, those richest persons are corporations. In this and in any other parallel universe, the Senators from NY state will defend banks. The Senators from Conn. will defend their cousins the insurance corps, and hedge funds.
Flyover Senators will have their doors open to anyone with money.
|
Laelth
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-18-09 11:49 PM
Response to Reply #5 |
Renew Deal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-18-09 11:39 PM
Response to Original message |
|
Maybe if a military base closes, but not much more.
|
Double T
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-18-09 11:45 PM
Response to Original message |
|
Senators bow to and serve their corporate masters. Therefore THEY ALL need to fired in their next elections.
|
rwheeler31
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Dec-18-09 11:45 PM
Response to Original message |
valerief
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 12:01 AM
Response to Original message |
10. More like their estates. nt |
Yupster
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 12:39 AM
Response to Original message |
11. Obviously they represent their parties |
|
since so many votes are pretty much 100 % partisan.
The original idea of the senate was that they would be the voice of the states in Washington and that's why senators were chosen by the state legislatures.
The 17th Amendment changed that and now they pretty much just represent their political parties.
|
Jamastiene
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 01:13 AM
Response to Original message |
12. Most of them are too busy protecting their stock portfolios |
|
and their corporate masters.
|
dysfunctional press
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 01:15 AM
Response to Original message |
13. they represent the corporate state. |
Terra Alta
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 01:17 AM
Response to Original message |
14. Perhaps there are a few who do. |
|
But most of them represent the rich and powerful, and the corporations. Whoever can throw them the most $. Screw the little people.
|
KT2000
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 01:20 AM
Response to Original message |
15. If thay pass "national plans" |
|
they will be negating the state laws that protect their citizens. If they do that, they will sell their constituents down the river. That is a real line in the sand especially for states with good consumer laws.
|
begin_within
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 01:21 AM
Response to Original message |
16. I don't feel that Feinstein or Boxer are in touch with Californians |
|
or Represenatives (Pelosi or my Congresswoman, Susan Davis) either... I feel that they are in touch with the people they chat with at wine & cheese events, but mainly to get that fondue recipe or whimper at the view in back of the infinity pool. They probably have people surrounding them telling them that all is just fine & dandy with Californians. So, no, I don't think Senators represent the people of their state well at all.
|
Kablooie
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 04:53 AM
Response to Original message |
17. Not necessarily. They support the states their sugar daddy corporations are in. |
stewartcolbert08
(614 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 04:54 AM
Response to Original message |
cali
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 05:08 AM
Response to Original message |
19. Mine do. Proudly and ferociously. |
TicketyBoo
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Sat Dec-19-09 05:12 AM
Response to Original message |
|
worrying about the next campaign (and the necessary contributions for it) to be worrying about what actually matters.
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Tue May 07th 2024, 04:55 PM
Response to Original message |