GOP Lawmaker Says Country ‘Being Run by Idiots’

OddTrader said:
In addition, the top leaders including both sides / aisles, president, VP, etc. once elected should officially give up their original party membership declared by oath that would be judged by voters from time to time in order to swap one to another nominated by voters as if required:
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Then this kind of bills would be much easier to compromise, modify, finalise and get passed.

Root cause then can be remedied much soner.



June 15, 2012
Remarks by the President on Immigration

Rose Garden

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/15/remarks-president-immigration

Precisely because this is temporary, Congress needs to act. There is still time for Congress to pass the DREAM Act this year, because these kids deserve to plan their lives in more than two-year increments. And we still need to pass comprehensive immigration reform that addresses our 21st century economic and security needs -- reform that gives our farmers and ranchers certainty about the workers that they'll have. Reform that gives our science and technology sectors certainty that the young people who come here to earn their PhDs won't be forced to leave and start new businesses in other countries. Reform that continues to improve our border security, and lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

Just six years ago, the unlikely trio of John McCain, Ted Kennedy and President Bush came together to champion this kind of reform. And I was proud to join 23 Republicans in voting for it. So there’s no reason that we can’t come together and get this done.

And as long as I’m President, I will not give up on this issue, not only because it’s the right thing to do for our economy -- and CEOs agree with me -- not just because it’s the right thing to do for our security, but because it’s the right thing to do, period. And I believe that, eventually, enough Republicans in Congress will come around to that view as well.
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I think there is an opening for a well written evenly balanced law.
Maybe public financing with strong restrictions and incentives to break this two party system of campaign bribery.

Anything but the corrupt 2 party system we have now.



piezoe said:
you'll either need to flip the balance on the supreme court or a constitutional amendment to do it. the later, though virtually impossible would be preferable.
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jem said:
I think there is an opening for a well written evenly balanced law.
Maybe public financing with strong restrictions and incentives to break this two party system of campaign bribery.

Anything but the corrupt 2 party system we have now.
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I'm with you entirely on this one. But the Court is not with us. That's why we either need to amend the first Amendment, or add an amendment dealing specifically with campaign finance, or change the court makeup so a different ruling on the First is possible. For the time being , jem, we are stuck with a fascist corporatism superior to individual rights and democracy. (democracy is awful except when it is not.)
 
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My idea is to make being a member of Congress as appealing as jury duty. You get a letter, you go serve one year with a $XX per diem.
 
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