Let them feel it in their wallets

Sen. George Allen, R-Va., one of the many Republicans pondering the presidency, has made a provocative suggestion for how to keep members of Congress from blowing their budget deadline every year: Withhold their paychecks. “There’s a great need for fiscal responsibility in Washington,” he said. “It’s absurd that a full-time legislature at the Capitol can’t get their job done by October 1st. There is no excuse why this can’t get done on time.” Of course, note Allen’s critics, timing isn’t everything: The senator was among those who recently voted to raise the federal debt ceiling to $9 trillion.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

8 Comments

  1. ProudLib
    Posted March 28, 2006 at 1:18 pm | Permalink

    How about if we withhold their paychecks until they balance the budget like Clinton did with every Republican in Congress voting against (tax increases that balanced the budget).

    How about that?

  2. Ben Huie
    Posted March 28, 2006 at 1:20 pm | Permalink

    A good idea – should also be applied to the KS Legislature.

  3. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted March 28, 2006 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

    Ditto Ben. That was my first thought!

  4. XXX
    Posted March 28, 2006 at 4:22 pm | Permalink

    They complained about tax and spend Liberals…now we have borrow and spend republicans.

  5. Darwin'sDisciple
    Posted March 28, 2006 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

    XXX:”…now we have borrow and spend republicans.”

    Reagan showed them how. Remember what Cheney said:”Reagan taught us deficits don’t matter.”

    I’m thinking my grandchildren might care when they find out their souls have been mortgaged to the Chinese!

  6. mrcontroversy
    Posted March 28, 2006 at 4:45 pm | Permalink

    Having met the Senator, I’m beginning to think his biggest problem is that he makes too much sense for Washington.

  7. XXX
    Posted March 28, 2006 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

    DD, we should probably start teaching our kids Chinese. We’re watching the dismantling of America. What isn’t being stolen is being given away.

    Half of our countrymen don’t seem to care.What ever happened to what the GOP was when I was a republican? Where is the much vaunted fiscal responsibility?

    “There’s a great need for fiscal responsibility in Washington,”

    Well no $hit, Maynard!

  8. Joe Williams
    Posted March 28, 2006 at 10:16 pm | Permalink

    I don’t think that will make a difference. Most all the members of Congress are already millionaires, especially Democrats.