The Worst Congress Ever

[g0zen]

Writing style is irrelevant, completely and totally irrelevant. I couldn't care less about the filler inbetween the facts and examples presented, but those facts and examples I DO care about. Less days worked than the infamous 'Do Nothing' Congress? Keeping the minority party out of committees and ending their hearings by shutting off the lights and microphones? These are what shock me, not the name calling blogger bullshit.

[Razor Ramon]

I'm not stating nothing should be done, I'm just saying that shit like this has been happening forever. Now we just happen to know about it. We can vote out whoever you want but it won't stop. It'll continue because there will always be someone who will want money. It may be a cynical way of viewing things but there are very VERY few people who should hold public office. I'd go so far as to say a good 70% of our elected officials shouldn't be in office.

A total overhaul of the system is needed. The only problem is that no matter what is done the biggest fallacy is the person in the seat. So long as the world needs someone with power to manage a country, business, whatever, corruption will not be too far behind the individual.

As for the flipflopping, I like to play devil's advocate a lot so my opinions sway depending on the argument.

[g0zen]

So then, you're saying we've never had a politican (or leader in general) with altruistic or atleast more noble aims than simply personal gain?

[Fe 26]

no, I think he said at least %30 were not corrupt.

[g0zen]

He effectively said 30% should be in office, not that they weren't corrupt. What he did say was that anytime power is given to an individual it inevitably corrupts them. I don't know if I believe that, or atleast not to the extent that I think he is talking about.

[Razor Ramon]

Most don't believe it but the facts are there. And it can't even be said about this country alone. It's throughout mankind. I know it's cliche as hell to say but power does corrupt and in our history there have only been a small handful of people who did not abuse their power. I'm not only talking politics either. And out of those people who actually did some noble things in life some of them were still corrupt. If we're going to talk about those who have never taken something for self-gain, we are talking very small amount.

[dakidski]

As much as I agree with some of the article it is totally worthless. Totally bloated with dramatics, juvenile descriptions and obvious exaggerations.

Yeah, it is like it was written just for g0zen...

[Fe 26]

power doesn't corrupt. Stupidity does.

[Razor Ramon]

The only stupid ones are the ones that get caught.

[Fe 26]

yeah, yeah,

but really, an intelligent person would know better than to give in to people he knows is wrong. He would see the bigger picture AND would know that the material wealth he would get playing along wouldn't make him happy in the end.

Really, how many microwaves, tvs, cars, women, etc, do you need?

It is all about seeing the big picture, and I think our best leaders have had some grasp of it. Me and you may not agree with their opinion of what we should do about the "big picture" but that is neither here nor there.

A better statement would be that US politics corrupts all. It is hard to go from the bottom to the top with out owing someone.