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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 05:37 PM
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Poll question: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 05:38 PM
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1. I don't know what sort of control they have over Pelosi
But Impeachment should have been over and done with at this point. And they're not going after the pukes enough. They suck at working the media... most of them anyways.
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globalvillage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 05:49 PM
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2. Neither
In the Senate, there have been 91 filibusters in the 110th Congress. Republicans have obstructed everything they could get away with. So, while I don't think there's been the progress we hoped for, we're lucky to have made any gains at all.

So I approve of what most of the Democrats have tried to accomplish most of the time, and the Republicans almost never.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 05:50 PM
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3. I do approve of the way Congressman Kucinich is handling his job n/t
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salguine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 05:59 PM
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9. Kucinich, Waxman, and Wexler are the only three that should be spared a massive
electoral housecleaning, as far as I'm concerned. The other 532 can go.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 06:02 PM
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10. Can we keep Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey?
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Pyrzqxgl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 06:10 PM
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12. How about Bob Filner?
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lligrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 06:59 PM
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16. You Left Out Boxer - She Stays nt
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showmemo Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 05:52 PM
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4. Democratic Congress is out of touch
I wish it was not so. They need to listen to us out here about what we need.

Why they don't give us the energy issue items I don't know.

Its clear that most of us want domestic drilling, drilling in coastal waters, Drilling in ANWR and why not NUKEs....

Nukes work for France the will work for America. Great Union Job creation too.

Nancy get on Board Please!
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 05:55 PM
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6. "Its clear that most of us want domestic drilling, drilling in coastal waters, Drilling in ANWR ..."
Heh, you really think so? :rofl:
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 06:08 PM
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11. No We Don't
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 06:14 PM
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13. HA!
While we're at it, how about more tax breaks for big oil and other corporations, extend term limits so Bush can run again, and start at least two more wars.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 06:19 PM
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14. They never post twice in one thread
...and they previously suggested that we should vote for Nader - lol - 'cause Dems "flip and flop"

:rofl:
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Kermitt Gribble Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 06:24 PM
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15. You're hilarious!
Since you want drilling so badly(and seem to think the rest of us share your feelings), please explain how it would benefit you, personally - along with the rest of "us out here".
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 05:53 PM
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5. hahahaha! Who's the lone "happy" person?
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WheelWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 05:57 PM
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7. They have a job?
Edited on Sun Aug-10-08 05:59 PM by The Village Idiot
Seriously, some members are taking care of the business they've been given. Others are hopelessly - nay, DANGEROUSLY unaware; and in some cases, thankfully, hopelessly ineffective. We are fortunate that we get to vote for each member individually, and not as a whole.
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Sherman A1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 05:58 PM
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8. The question in my opinion is
rather.... Is Congress Handling it's Job....

The Answer is NO.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 07:59 PM
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17. ..
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