I squirmed, I fidgeted, I came this close to throwing my Logitech remote control at my T.V. screen as I watched Michigan Congressman, Republican Thaddeus McCotter, repeatedly tell Neil Cavuto that he voted against the bailout plan because “the people are against it.”
Paid to Defer to Jethro Clampett?
I’d like to think I am more informed than most about macro-economics and the workings of the capital markets, but I readily admit I don’t know whether the bailout plan is a good one or not.
But dammit, I expect my Congressman to know it!
What is it about representative democracy that people just don’t get? Don’t we pay these truculent poll-meisters to know more than we do?
Any Congressman who voted against this bailout plan because Joe Lunchbucket, the Junior High School custodian (or Peter Pappas, the novice Tax Blogger), didn’t particularly dig it should be water-friggin-boarded!
2 responses so far ↓
1 Bruce // Sep 30, 2008 at 3:24 pm
One would expect them to know more.
But one would expect that they are idiots too.
By the way I liked the “truculent poll-meisters”.
Well said.
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