Comments on: Goodbye To The Do-Nothing Congress

Bob Schieffer Offers A Eulogy To The 109th

[adventurepa]

What a bunch of over paid blow-hards.
We need to pass a new rule.
"American citizens get to vote for congress pay raises.
If you do a good job, you get a raise.
Then we could really make them work!

"the committee decided bad judgment didn't mean house rules had been violated"
I wonder if that excuss would work with a judge?

Debbie Wasserman, "needs to reschedule her daughter's Brownie troop meetings?"
Stop your winning and get to work.
Jack Kingston said "it would mean less time with his family."
So get a new job Jack and don't ya come back, no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the road Jack.
Your Fired!

We should have gotten rid of all the fat cat's in congress.
2 years from now, in 08, vote out the other fat cat do nothing members of Congress.
Maybe we can get some 5 day a week, regular working people to represent us.
Probably do a better job anyway.

[clestes-2009]

Work 5 days a week?? How could you ask them to do such a thing. Why it is outradgeous!

Biggest paid goof offs in US history. These jerks can't get anything done and when someone else suggests they work longer and maybe get something done, for their constituants mind you, they say that shows Dem don't care for families. How about our families? Most of us work 5 days a week, you ***. How stupid do you think we are??

[rafterman1]

How about Congress's pay, benefits and health insurance are all tied to the average of the country? So, the more average pay people get and the more widespread healthcare is, the Congressmen get the same cut. Their job compensation should reflect the typical American's. Maybe then they will spend more time helping people instead of lining their own pockets. At least the ones who aren't rich will.

[observantx]

This weekend I had the dubious pleasure of listening to DennyLiarHastert%u2019s farewell address to Congress. What a load of whitewash. Those must be really industrial strength rose tinted contacts he has on. He must have been in a different Congress than the one the rest of us saw sit on their collective brains. They did nothing done except walk on their knees to K Street and kiss the rears of the lobby crowd there for campaign money. Then they turned around and walked on their knees to our White House to kiss Clueless Leader%u2019s butt and bleat their allegiance.

Let%u2019s see now. $160,000 for only three days %u201Cwork%u201D. I believe each one of these do nothings owes us 40 percent of their pay for the two days they did nothing after doing nothing the other three. That would be $64,000 times 6 years equals $384,000 from each member of our semiroyalty.

That money can be put to much better use for education, the environment, Katrina relief, etc.

No more pay raises for these bloated buffoons until we see poverty in this country eliminated.

[cmorical]

Bob Schieffer I couldn't have said it better myself...it's the best speach ever! Good riddens to all the bad and hope we have nothing but good to look forward to in 2007! May our troops come home and may we start focusing on the USA and helping the so many poor and homeless in our own country.

[rafterman1]

Three whole days a week. Wow. How do those rich people in Congress manage? Most of them already have wealth, plus a $160,000 Congrssional salary and now they have to work a whole 5 days? That's just terrible. I'm sure the other 95% of the country that has both parents working 5 (or more) days a week for a lot less than $160,000 a year will feel just terrible for all you Congress people.

[bluestardad]

DON'T GO AWAY MAD JUST GO AWAY YOU PIMPS!

[mikekleber]

I think that every member of congress should receive minimum wage, have to go without any health insurance benefits, and plan and save for their own retirement benefits like many Americans do today. Maybe then, we would have a congress that takes care of Americans as they should.

[bushrocks1]

Would I send my son to this war? You might ask would I send him to World War II? Or Vietnam? Maybe you would distinguish those conflicts and whether you would send your son to fight in them. But that question is misdirected in a very important way: I can't command my son to go to war. He has to make that choice. So the better question would be: would I volunteer to fight in Iraq, WW II, Vietnam? Would I volunteer to fight in any war? Respond if drafted? I don%u2019t know. I'm not equivocating, only addressing that it is a hypothetical. To a hypothetical, I can answer, sure I'd fight. But I have nightmares of battle (from my past life as a Jacobite). So how do I feel toward those who do volunteer? Impressed and maturely knowing that many things go into their decision. But I do strongly believe that a country that can't find those men is doomed. The fact that we can find them is one reason why I say there is no failure in Iraq. Objectively, I also believe it for other reasons. An attempt to establish democracy in the Middle East is a bold, brilliant, noble effort, facing a high chance of failure. That's why I greatly respect and admire those who have made the attempt--the Bush administration. They have been resolute, something I have not seen in my lifetime. They may not succeed, for reasons outside their control or fault: traitors on the home front. Now those traitors have occupied the high ground. Yet... we're still in Iraq; the President hasn%u2019t been impeached. Why?...I'm waiting.

[bushrocks1]

Would I send my son to this war? You might ask would I send him to World War II? Or Vietnam? Maybe you would distinguish those conflicts and whether you would send your son to fight in them. But that question is misdirected in a very important way: I can't command my son to go to war. He has to make that choice. So the better question would be: would I volunteer to fight in Iraq, WW II, Vietnam? Would I volunteer to fight in any war? Respond if drafted? I don%u2019t know. I'm not equivocating, only addressing that it is a hypothetical. To a hypothetical, I can answer, sure I'd fight. But I have nightmares of battle (from my past life as a Jacobite). So how do I feel toward those who do volunteer? Impressed and maturely knowing that many things go into their decision. But I do strongly believe that a country that can't find those men is doomed. The fact that we can find them is one reason why I say there is no failure in Iraq. Objectively, I also believe it for other reasons. An attempt to establish democracy in the Middle East is a bold, brilliant, noble effort, facing a high chance of failure. That's why I greatly respect and admire those who have made the attempt--the Bush administration. They have been resolute, something I have not seen in my lifetime. They may not succeed, for reasons outside their control or fault: traitors on the home front. Now those traitors have occupied the high ground. Yet... we're still in Iraq; the President hasn%u2019t been impeached. Why?...I'm waiting.