Pic Of The Moment: 2014 Congressional Year In Review

[EarlG]

Infographic: Congress by the Numbers in 2014

Estimated Cost of Election 2014

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Absolutely disgusting!

[Enthusiast]

8. You beat me to it.

[world wide wally]

2. Thank you again, Supreme Court

[red dog 1]

19. Move to Amend: We the People, Not We the Corporations

https://movetoamend.org/

[onehandle]

3. Lazy Obama voters made their year. nt

[imthevicar]

30. Lazy My ASS!

Give us real Democrats worth voting for. Not the current crop of Banker suck ups and Dinos. You Fine folks put the blame in the wrong place consistently. Blame the Voters (Who have no real choice anyway) That's all this place is good for! Look at our Party leaders! Hillery!? Really we are gonna have another Clinton Sellout!? this is supposed to get us excited!? BTW I went to the polls for all the good it did. And for my vote, The Democrats in Jersey Just sold out our right to a public question on water privatization. Thanks DINOS! So don't hand me this crap like it means anything!

[Cosmic Kitten]

4. In any other country people would cry dictatorship...

or some other term to describe an oppressed population.

16% approval and 94% incumbency!?!?!?
CLEaRLy THe ELEcTIOnS ArE RIgGEd!!1!!1!

[pathansen]

5. What a joke!

[niyad]

6. absolutely disgusting.

[SpankMe]

7. 95.4%? Meet my uncle: Jerry Mander n/t

[niyad]

9. just think of the good that could have been accomplished with all that money, time and energy.

[Dustlawyer]

10. This is why we must join all the various groups fighting their issues together, because none

will be successful with a bought Congress! We must demand Publicly Funded Elections and an end to campaign contributions. Bernie has said this is his number one issue, so we must show him enough support to throw his hat into the ring! Just doing that will get this solution out and provide a place to rally everyone. It's time to stop bitching and do something! You can start by spreading this message everywhere and to everyone you know! Happy Holidays!

[MADem]

11. Some smart PAC should turn this into a fifteen second ad. No voice-over (except for the blind).

Just the printed information, with appropriate "sound effect" punctuation. It would kick ass.

[bobclark86]

12. People like their congressman, but hate

everyone else's.

My congressman didn't get re-elected because of campaign contributions. He got re-elected because there was poor turnout, the challenger was the same as the last two who lost in pretty much all but name, and did I mention the turnout sucked?

So here's a question: If Democrats control the redistricting and make a rural district that voted for Obama in 2008, but it keeps getting won by Republicans, is it still gerrymandering?

[turbinetree]

13. Oh Goody

Next two years
We get the smirk
We get the jerks,
And finally we get the twerps
Get ready folks the hypocrisy is not going to get any better
and that
I am glad I did not vote against my self interests and it was not DINO's and republicans

[czarjak]

14. Sad, sad, sad....

Whomever has the most money wins. Still.

[bulloney]

15. And this wasn't even a Presidential election.

I cringe to think how much will be spent for the 2016 elections.

Thank you corporate whores Scalia, Alito, Thomas, Kennedy and Roberts

[jjewell]

16. I believe...

this what P.Diddy meant when he said "Vote or Die!"

[Initech]

17. America: the best government money can buy!

[Quixote1818]

18. Sometimes it just feel hopeless. nt

[red dog 1]

20. K&R...Thanks for posting, EarlG

Citizens United MUST be overturned!
https://movetoamend.org/

[SoapBox]

21. It makes me sick.

[AngryDem001]

22. Congress is useless

unless you are a banker.

[Major Hogwash]

23. EarlG for Speaker of the House!!!

Snicker, snicker.

What the hell, it can't get any worse than it is now.

[Cha]

28. EarlG would be great.. We knew him when!

[Turbineguy]

24. The

worst congress money can buy.

[valerief]

25. Gerrymandering and voter suppression and a corrupt SCOTUS work! nt

[3catwoman3]

26. Fuzzy...

...math.

[Cha]

27. No, the people who voted the majority of GreedOverPeople in and those who stayed home aren't

asking for it! Yes, they are. they approve and ruin the Country for the rest of us.

Mahalo EarlG

[Cha]

29. Koch $$$$$$ buying our country.. piece by piece.

[Initech]

33. Ah yes the wannabe dictators.

They should just declare themselves dictators and get it over with. It's the waiting I can't stand.

[thesquanderer]

31. "Money spent" misses the point.

The total amount of money spent has very little bearing on the 95.4% re-election rate. What's actually relevant is the differential in money spent by incumbents vs. that spent by challengers. Incumbents spent 6x more than challengers in the House, and 12x in the Senate.

https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/incumbs.php

[Initech]

34. The best damn government money can buy.