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Re: Burr: Congress should feel pinch too

Skippyscot — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:17:56 -0500

It's about time this happened. It will give the 27th Amendment some teeth. Currently, members the legislative branch have somewhere to hide if there is no vote. An actual vote would allow us to hold them to account at the next election.

Re: Burr: Congress should feel pinch too

american11 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:58:31 -0500

oh my oh my....it is scary to think that obama supporters really believe this man has our best interest as president. wake up america....black or white....he has his own interest. i guarantee what ever his supporters want will be what gets done......wait ....don't think i contradicted myself....by his supporters.....i mean the ones with mulah that got him where he is at....POLITICS at its finest!

Re: Burr: Congress should feel pinch too

CitizenOpinionated — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:41:38 -0500

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/04/cbo-obama-stimulus-harmful-over-long-haul/

Interesting article...this is the CBO's report...Obama is willing to merely pass the buck to the younger generations...Thanks...

Re: Burr: Congress should feel pinch too

CitizenOpinionated — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:24:08 -0500

The day GWB took office the left was quick to pounce on every slip up and hide behind the guise of accountability. How come the inverse is unacceptable now? Kay Hagan is an elected official and is beholden to the citizens of North Carolina since we elected her. What is partisan about the observation since it is based in facts and her track record during the campaign. If she is for it, then let it be known, so the citizens of this state have the right to exercise the civic rights to contact their legislator in an attempt to change her mind. This is a democracy.

I am sure you might resort to personal attacks now, but I am merely talking about a candidate, not you.

Re: Burr: Congress should feel pinch too

CitizenOpinionated — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:08:37 -0500

facts are facts...she is yet to take a stance for the second time on this bill...remember the campaign.

And speaking down to me because of my views must be enjoyable. I do not attack you and talk about my observations. But you feel the need to make it a personal attack.

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Gosh — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:37:01 -0500

While your purely partisan opine has been duly noted with such gems as a woman's primary job is keeping her legs closed and not representing you in the Senate, I would like to take a moment to inject some reality in your manufactured outrage.

The Stimulus bill, as we speak even this Saturday, is still undergoing changes. Republicans with brains have joined Democrats to make it work. The vote will come on the final bill when it's final, not in a statement from Senator Hagan yesterday in your inbox before she even knows what the bill will say.

I'm so sorry a girl with a D by her name broke your heart all those decades ago. Perhaps you could incorporate reality into your healing process. Not just spewing this nonsense on DOME to feel better about your lot in life and your party's plight as irrelevant.

Re: Burr: Congress should feel pinch too

CitizenOpinionated — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:58:58 -0500

I am glad to see Burr is taking a public opinion, whereas, Hagan continues to evade North Carolinians and our right know how she will vote on the bailout. The clear answer is that she will vote yes, since she has been rank and file she arrived in DC, but she is merely attempting to keep the press on this issue at bay since she will vote against the wishes of most North Carolinians and Americans. Ultimately leading me to conclude that she will vote for special interest since it is clear that the Stimulus package is nothing short of a thank for the campaign assistance.

I could be proven wrong by Hagan's action, but you read it here first.

Re: Perdue outlines election reform

liam — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:50:15 -0500

What a joke.

The first half of her "plan" to clean up politics is a direct attack on her opponent Richard Moore.

Once you actually get to the substance of this "plan" it's just a warmed over hybrid of the pot o' money that Russ Feingold proposed to fund elections back in 1999.

Putting aside the legal and constitutional issues surrounding the limitation of political speech that have killed every similar proposal, this is politically dumb. What do you think the average voter thinks about having to pay for these politicians campaigns with their tax money?

These politicians have so screwed up our elections taking semi-legal bribes and ignoring the needs of the state that now they want me to pay for their campaigns? Their ugly negative campaigns that call me during dinner and interrupt Oprah?

THEY WANT ME TO PAY THEM TO NOT BE CORRUPT! How infuriating.