The government at work

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CongressThis is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for.  I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms.  No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc.

House Minority Leader  Lawrence F. Cafero Jr. , R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far  right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert,  D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a  new budget. (AP)

The guy sitting in the row in front of these two….  he’s on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.

These are the folks that couldn’t get the budget out by Oct. 1,  and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on….

Thanks Gene

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13 thoughts on “The government at work”

  2. Yes, yes, most of us feel that most politicians are a waste of perfectly good air. But remember, these folks often spend hour after hour after hour after. . . listening to not-very-smart folks drone on and on about something that they care little about. A reasonable perspective, each politician having but a few pet interests, and only a vague interest in their precinct’s (?) interests. So, boredom is often, even in the best politician. (HOW long will he keep talking about tax breaks for his pet blueberry farm? (Yes, several blueberry farms get tremendous tax breaks))

  3. I think a similar picture of a multinational’s board meeting is needed for proper comparison. You’d probably have to anonymize it due to the hookers and blow though.

  5. 36 of the 100 US Senators and every one of the 435 members of the US House of Representatives (including every one in this photo) are up for re-election this November 2nd.

  7. It reads like a dream order for a wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.

    But that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for “in-flight services” – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That’s almost $1,000 per week.

    Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Judicial Watch, which investigates and prosecutes government corruption, show Pelosi incurred expenses of some $2.1 million for her use of Air Force jets for travel over that time.

    “Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said today. “And these documents suggest the Speaker’s congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else.”

    Pelosi, D-Calif., recently joined President Obama on a Judicial Watch list of Top 10 corrupt politicians because of her “sense of entitlement,” the group said.

    “Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them. Case in point: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her excessive and boorish demands for military travel. Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Pentagon in 2008 that suggest Pelosi has been treating the US Air Force like her own personal airline,” the evaluation said…

    > http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123472

    Pelosi is also up for re-election this November.

  8. Each person in the picture represents the home folk and must make a speech that mirrors the constituents desire. That gets votes and it is what the speaker is doing. All will get their turn, while the others listen. The people who are goofing off are displaying total disinterest; and why shouldn’t they? They know how they are going to vote and nothing the speaker says will change that vote.

  9. Look, the speeches may be boring, the information may be mindless, but they are paid to sit there and at least PRETEND to listen so that they can attempt to make a valid assessment of the issues.

    I sat through a lot of inane, mindless lectures, discussion groups, and thesis defenses so I could finish my degree. I won’t pretend that I stayed attentive through all of it, but I at least feigned attentiveness and didn’t bust out my phone to start texting. In the end, I was still able to present a solid understanding of what was discussed, and if I was being paid to listen, I would’ve listened that much closer.

    If the politicians don’t want to deal with the mindless drivel that comes with the territory, then don’t run for office.

  10. DJ, this nonsense about Pelosi is from World Net Daily, the idiots who are still pushing the “birther” myth. Here’s the rule: if they print it, they are lying.

  11. Politicians are paid, and paid well by us. They are NOT there to play games-other than the usual political ones.

    This is the same malaise we have here – where voting is compulsory!

    These people make snake oil salesmen look like fine upstanding citizens!

    (They are also not very bright. Don’t they know that, like here, there are camera’s present?).

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