Just about everyone (at least everyone I know) agrees that Congress is a corrupt and useless organization that seems to be getting exponentially worse every few years. We can also agree on a nice size laundry list of problems, from campaign finance to lobbying groups, career politicians to partisan hacks who bow to the party machine.
Well, I’ve solved the problem.
First, fire them. All of them. Remove every sitting Senator and Representative.
Then, no more fucking elections.
Congress meets, what, three, four times a year?
We make it a random selection, like jury duty. You get selected, you go to Washington four times over the year, make your votes, then go back to your life. New people selected every January.
Who knows, we might even get some bills passed that make sense for a change.
Politics in Oz has got a bit staid and boring over the last 11 years since Paul Keating went.
He used the Oz idiom to the max.
Keating was a Labor PM – Labor is like your Dems only ours was (at the time) almost a mirror image of the Liberals who are anything but … liberal.
One of my favourite Keating insults is: He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
Somehow it failed to make an appearance at http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/
… as did his insult to the Malayan PM when he referred to him as a recalcitrant.
Do y’all have any courageous pollies who use language to the max?
But none of this addresses your distain for pollies in general … but how else are pollies to be addressed?
Nikita Khrushchev: Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
And one of those BC philosophers: Under every rock you will find a politician.
I just noticed that tiny tiny very small smiley at bottom centre.