Michael Scanlon’s guilty plea last week on conspiring to bribe a member of Congress could build momentum for changing lobbying rules, especially as details come to light about the extravagant gifts that he and his partner, Jack Abramoff, showered on lawmakers. “I think most Americans play by the rules and expect their leaders in government to do the same,” Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., told The New York Times. “It is time for Congress to clean up its act.” Actually, it’s past time.
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Congress won’t clean-up its act, there’s too much money involved.
That’s the job of a “free press,” to call each and every one of them out.
You did it with “The Bridge To Nowhere” and it worked.
Now, just keep going until you get all of it.
And I do mean “all ot it.”
He’s making an un-smiley face.
The money for the bridge stayed with the state, they just had to come up with something else to spend it on.
Tracy, I didn’t know that. I know everything else, just not that.
Ok, WE, go to work!
Actually the money stayed in the state and but is no longer earmarked for the bridge. It can still be spent on the bridge or something else equally stupid.
It isn’t this paper, or any other paper, that will end up cleaning up congress, it that’s possible. It is US.We are the ones who voted them in. We are the enablers. Congress is a reflection of who we are. You want to know what the real problem is in Congress? Look in the mirror.
We are also the ones who can vote them out and vote in real leadership, but I doubt that it can come from this fiasco of a two party system.
The ubiquitous blog is becoming the weapon that can defeat the slacker society we have grown to be. The ones who want real change need to find the venue to put real ideas in the grasp of Americans, and the blog is what can see it through. Most of those reading WE blog can pick out the intelligent posts and ignore the posts that do nothing but bitch.
Blogs are still in their infancy, but the future for them is tremendous. Use them!
Until we start watching what our politicians do, instead of just listening to what they say, and until we think through to the real results of their actions, and vote accordingly, we’re going to be taken for the same ride we’ve been on for almost two centuries. Admittedly, it’s a lot of trouble, but if we’re to rule ourselves, we need to take the time to do it properly! Until we do, we’re going to be ruled by snake-oil salesmen!
Blowhard
Most people get their news from TV, as their lives are too hectic to sit down and read. But TV is pressured by newspapers.
Perhaps if you read some intelligent blogs, you’d know that.