What This Country Needs

What this country needs right now is men and women of conscience, integrity, and conviction - in the Congress of the United States.

When Nancy Polosi and her warriors approach you and threaten you - or conversely promise you and your district the world if you vote her way - it's time to stand your ground and say "no." If you don't like her leadership, vote her out. You are not beholding to her. You should maintain your integrity and vote the will of your constituents.

This is not a popularity contest. She didn't elect you. Sure, peer pressure can make your day-to-day activities on the Hill a little less pleasant than just going along, but by maintaining a personal code and standing your ground, you may well outserve her and the others who cave to her every wish.

In the Senate, it is no different except that there are fewer of you. That's why you need to maintain your own standards. It's easier for us to track 100 than it is 435.

We need people to stand up not stand down. Why vote against what you really believe just to look like a team player or to scratch someone else's itch? If you don't agree with a bill, if you don't like the way the leadership is handling something, if you think the American people are getting a raw deal, speak out.

That we will respect - and even applaud.

Don't count on Americans forgetting the way they used to and just reelecting you anyway. With social media being what it is, we will remember and discuss your mis-steps.

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Does The Capitol Have A Carpenter?

There have many reports the past few days about the closed door meetings on Capitol Hill on health care and other issues - and who has been allowed and who hasn't. The most troubling aspect of this is that we - the public - have been excluded.

We're not talking national security or defense issues here. We're talking excessive spending, taxation, and unrelenting regulation. Any of those discussions we have a vested interest in and should have a seat at the table - if only by listening or seeing who else was at the table.

Here's my proposal: (1) remove all doors to committee rooms where taxation, regulation, and normal legistlative discussions occur, or (2) put big clear glass panels on all such doors and remove the locks so that we can see who is at the table.

Enough of the "behind-closed-door-deals" that are the trademark of Congress. We've had it.

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Don't You Want To Hear The Details First?

Yesterday, Harry Reid, majority leader of the US Senate, said that he promised unanimous Democratic Party support in the Senate for "whatever strategy" the President eventually decided on as far as waging the war in Afghanistan.

Unanimous support? No one is allowed to voice a dissenting opinion? Separation of powers? No debate?

Whatever strategy? That could include a lot - maybe something not everyone agrees with.

Seems a little inclusive and premature without any details. Want to rethink that position, Harry?

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