Idiocy Act

"Making political experts worry that only the wealthy will be able to serve in Congress."

Is it me or have these so-called political "experts" forgotten the ENTIRE history of American politics?

I guess they forgot that originally you had to be rich to vote. So a bunch of rich white douchebags go to Philadelphia and conjure a government just like the one from which they secede. Except, they make it completely dysfunctional! By the time the vote opened up to normal people, they had already rigged the game so it didn't matter for whom you vote.

Only in America can you be so revered for failing on such a massive scale.
The founding fathers were either completely retarded or evil geniuses. Probably a roughly even mix of each, with some STD-based dementia filling out the rest.

Also, it's so nice that Congress gets to vote on whether or not to freeze their wages. What a sacrifice for a bunch of self-important plutocrats. I'm sure half of them or more are so delusional as to think they still serve a purpose in society.

Meanwhile, federal employees just have to keep taking the freeze without any say. And unlike our "esteemed" members of Congress, federal employees can't make up the difference by accepting large anonymous donations from every shady interest in the world.

You really want to see these pigs squeal? Start calling them en masse and agitate for a law to ban lobbying. If they passed a law that really hit their wallets, then you can report that to me and expect that I will be impressed. Not that you, an ordinary citizen, would ever be allowed to speak to one of them without first buying a dinner for $10k or making a ludicrous donation to their campaign. Without a lot of hard cash, you will only be speaking to the brainwashed teenagers from BFE answering their office phones. Remember, these kids are volunteering to be a sort of less-than-qualified insurance agents. Their job is to reject as many claims (complaints?) as possible.

At this point, I would be impressed if the "honorable" members of Congress passed any meaningful legislation at all. And I mean from this point in time to the end of American history. Like I said before, only in America can you be so revered for failure on such a massive scale.

Guess I know now why the founding fathers didn't include the option for a vote of no confidence in their sporty new failure machine . . .