Occupy Congress.

Ah. Cantor. How surprising.

He made a profit by betting the US credit rating would be downgraded.

Congress exempts themselves from a lot of the legislation they pass. They're immune from the equal opportunity employment act, OSHA regulations, EPA regulation, the disabilities act, and I suspect quite a few others as well. Like insider trading or lying to federal agents or illegally downloading music.

Because they suck.

Can't they amend the bill to say "but just for Pelosi"?

But but Pelosi

StoneColdAtheist: Okay, we tried. We lost. Time to move on.

You won't see me on Fark any more. I'm getting a nose job, facial tuck and hair transplants, converting to fundie-Jeebus-loves-me, and registering as a Republican so I can run for Congress next year.

I might as well embiggen myself if I can't have any social justice.

I'm not entirely sure that it's going away. It's got 202 cosponsors as of this morning, and things like this, that you could probably get 90% approval for across the country, don't usually just go away. I don't think Tim Walz (D-MN), an original author, is going to let it.

I think this was more about territorial pissing contests than anything else. Bachus wanted to fast track it to cover his own ass politically (he was prominently featured in that 60 minutes report), and the other 4 committee chairs who had jurisdiction over it didn't want it to get away from them without their opportunity to... "look" at it.

But if this isn't acted on by next fall, it'd be a great commercial to run: an anti-corruption bill written by 2 Dems dies in committees in the Repub-controlled House. I have a tough time seeing the R's letting that happen, but we'll see.

It's a shame that Nemo's brain isn't occupied by functional cells.

Someday schoolchildren will be taught about this era in the history of what was once known as the United States of America, and they won't be able to comprehend why people so viciously defended these elected leaders from the rightful scorn of the citizenry. They'll just say to themselves "I guess if these idiots hated the protest movement that much they got what they deserved" and then flip back to the section on ancient Greece to look at pictures of boobie-statues.

I'm sure that by now our politicians and their staff must have heard the ominous grumbling about wanting to forcibly eject them from the building and liquidate their assets. They might want to listen for a change.

Some people want their heads. If they can escape with their hides, I think they should consider themselves lucky. They've had it too good at our expense for too long. Blocking legislation to prevent or hinder them from robbing us is only going to make it worse. Do they want to be dragged from the halls of government? They're giving us plenty of reason to do it. I'd do it with a kick in the behind, and throw the box of things from their office into the gutter after them.

LarryDan43: Do you really want to take away a monetary incentive to become a congress person? If you do that you'll end up with a bunch of morons running this country. If you want the best and brightest, you need to keep this legal.

What a dishonest way of looking at things.

Rann Xerox: Eric Cantor is the seminal fluid that collects under the buttocks of a paraplegic prostitute who has been gangbanged by twenty guys in a room with a temperature that is close to freezing.

Simply calling Cantor scum just doesn't cut it.

Welp, my lunch is over.

notShryke: All of you should be applauding Cantor, you idiots.

Why?