Today, We Will See Where Pelosi’s House Falls, A For Attendance
Posted by Andy on October 18th, 2007
Today the US House is planning on taking up the veto override vote on Hillary Care’s primmer, SCHIP. Reports are that Pelosi will once again fail to lead Congress in opposition to President Bush, and fall short of the veto override.
Pelosi’s first 10 months as Speaker have been pretty much dismal. She can’t get anything meaningful on the Democratic agenda accomplished, except wasting a lot of people’s time and taxpayer money. She had grand plans of forcing members to be in Washington for the entire week, and take few vacations, but nothing is getting done.
I am one who believes our Representatives should spend as much time in their Districts with constituents as possible. I know the left’s operatives (liberal bloggers) and detractors (stalkerazzi) of Republicans love to chide Republicans who think the 5 day “work” week is silly, but the truth is that it is.
You see, it is impossible for members to properly Represent their Districts when they never have a chance to be there. Now I know this works out beautifully for the Democrats, as they can stay in close contact with their prime constituents, Washington Special Interests and DC money. But that is NOT what the founders had in mind when they dreamt up ‘the People’s House’.
So Pelosi may be running a sweat shop in the House by forcing members to be in Washington all week, but she is not producing the results to match. I guess that is why Congressional Approval is hovering just outside the single digits.
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October 18th, 2007 at 10:28 am
That’s brilliant. I have been trying to understand why our representatives, particularly RINOs, can seemingly understand “conservative principles” enough to talk about them, and then vote, seemingly, completely contrary to them. What you are suggesting is that our representatives need to spend more time in their districts so that they not only can talk the conservative talk, but listen to their constitutents “translate” those principles into how they should vote. Just because you can get elected, apparently, does not mean you have the smarts to reason your way from basic principles to a rational vote. Whereas there are many among the activist base who have that ability. Dear Senator: we need to talk.