How to Drain the Swamp

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Few of those who have gravitated to serve in congress actually have their constituents in mind.  Most have their largest campaign contributors in mind.  In other words, special interest.  Their foremost goal is to keep their job in congress and maybe even venture to a higher level job.

We at the C. A. Morris Institute have an objective to get term limits for congress.  It is a top priority.  The examples of party politics and special interest control we are seeing at play throughout Washington right now among both Democrats and Republicans make it fully visible and it is enraging voters.

We voters are mostly to blame for the DC swamp.  We don’t take elections seriously enough.  In 2012 after the Obamacare debacle in congress, Republicans still didn’t take the presidential election seriously enough.

It is correct to say in many cases that all those running are the same.  So what is a voter to do when their party only offers up candidates who will be just like the majority of the DC Swamp?    VOTE OUT THE INCUMBENT.

We need to especially pay attention to the primary elections.  This is where your preferred party will be sent a message.  If your congressional representative is from your party, and is just another DC Swamp dweller, vote him or her out in the PRIMARY election.  Hopefully it will send the message to the state party officials that we are not going to take their “business as usual” anymore.

By voting out the incumbent, we will send the message to the parties, that we- the voters- will not accept their “career politicians”, their “business as usual”, their party control or their disregard for the constituents.

Both democrats and republicans can use this method to get the political parties’ attention, and ultimately send the message that we – the voters – are draining the swamp.  We can remove from office the career senators and career representatives who have wielded power for too long.  Remove those who have done the bidding of the party for too long. Remove those who vote to satisfy their special interest campaign contributors rather than their constituents.  We don’t have to listen to polls.  We don’t have to listen to how big the incumbent’s campaign “war chest” is. We don’t have to listen to the incumbents’ empty promises.  We vote out the incumbent, and drain the swamp.  We can create term limits with our vote until we have incumbents who will vote for term limits.

We can drain the swamp, and enforce term limits, and we do not have to wait for congress to decide on a constitutional amendment.  We show up at the Polling Places for the Primary elections and vote out the incumbent.  If your preferred party is not the party of the incumbent, that’s ok, vote against your party’s-backed candidate if he or she a career politician.  Also, depending on you state’s election laws, you may want to change your voter registration party affiliation to have the opportunity to have a say in whether an incumbent stays or goes.  That is your right.  You indeed can and should switch your party affiliation to best serve your needs and objectives.  You can switch back and forth with each primary election depending on the candidates.

We all need to stay informed and participate in the primary and general elections (even though it may seem to be a bother), and together we can “drain the swamp”.

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Who Will Be Held Accountable for Obamacare (ACA)?

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President Obama has been given pass after pass on scandals that have piled high. Now it seems, as predicted by many experts and yes, even republicans, (though denied emphatically by ALL democrats) the ACA is indeed the disaster that was forecast.
President Obama is on record in a nearly unprecedented number of video clips stating, “your healthcare premiums will be lower”, and “you’ll be able to keep your current insurance plan”.
These statements are now proven to be absolutely false. So the first question is, did the president intentionally lie to the American people? If that answer is no, how can he possibly justify his erroneous statements? Of course he didn’t read the entire law himself, but how could his staff, advisers and his democratic colleagues in the congress, possibly allow him to stand up in front of audiences across the country and tell these blatant lies?
Americans are now so outraged, even the press can’t ignore the lies. Yes…, the “mainstream media” is indeed reporting about the falsehoods broadcast by the president, his administration and democratic colleagues. So the next question becomes, who will be held accountable?
Will the media give the president yet another pass? Even given the failure of the scale of the ACA, and given false information that was just dumped on the American public in order to gain passage without having to tell the truth about anything about it. They lied about the plans, the costs for the plans, the costs to taxpayers above and beyond the premiums, there really doesn’t seem to be anything that wasn’t lied about or if not outright lied about, smoothed over to camouflage the truth.
It will be interesting as the outrage in America grows, whether the media will allow themselves to hold the president accountable, or if the taxpayers, middle class Americans, constituents, all those of us severely injured by the lies and deception, will be angry enough to hold the democrats accountable at the polls. It will be very interesting if either of those can happen.

Fiscal Cliff Fiasco

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So many people agree about the fiscal cliff fiasco and congress not providing the additional help for the Hurricane Sandy relief.  There are a lot of angry people right now. 

However, we need to look no further than the mirror to find the one to blame.  Yes… it’s us!  We have the power to vote these incompetent respresentatives in, and the power to vote them out.  So whichever of the incompetent representatives is your representative, you have some accountability for the incompetent Congress running Washington right  now.

Let this be our message.  Congress has sent their message loud and clear.  They are not in Washington to represent us, their constituents, they are in Washington to represent themselves, their parties, their PAC’s, Super PAC’s, and special interest.  So keep this in mind at the next election.

Please give serious consideration to those on the ballot that you will be voting for.  So often we are labeled by ourselves as democrats or republicans and WE follow the party line at the polls. WE push the button, pull the handle, or punch the knockout for the straight party ticket.   Because it’s easy.  Because we’re labeled.  Our registration cards say republican or democrat.  So we vote that way.  Mindlessly.  Then at times like this we ask “why is our government so scewed up”.  Well, the easy answer is, because of us. 

Yes there’s much more to it than that of course, but fundamentally we are responsible for putting those incompetent people in Washington.  Let’s plan to do something about that before the next campaign season rolls around.  Please join us.