Someone wore a cowboy hat in that official Congressional photo.

Some fat bastard wore a goddamn cowboy hat.

A. Aaronson reporting for duty sir!

Damn. I've got an unlisted number.

Are you farking joking? That was the case decades ago. Today you should be looking to picking names out of the supermax inmates.

People picked randomly from US phonebookSpecial Ed would do better than current congress

well as long as they're not tax and spend Big Government types like Barrack HUSSEIN N0bama, we'd be ok.

SpikeStrip: Navin R. Johnson

Nadie_AZ: Every day random son of a biatch! Take that you run of the mill bastard.

DIE GAS PUMPER!

HE HATES THESE CANS!!!!

1) Term limits

2) Elected persons are subject to laws they pass

3) Balanced budget amendment, and no, not the moronic one the liberals support

4) Congress actually has to abide by the constitution

Problems solved.

Richard Head for President!

Harold Assman for Secretary of State (new window)

Power for Senate! (new window)

Aarontology: You know those random people in the phone book? They're the ones who voted the current batch of tards into office.

Odds are you're wrong on that. They're even worse: They didn't vote, and thus allowe the current batch of tards in by default.

Kazan: basemetal: Well they couldn't do much worse.

yes.. yes they could be. never underestimate the sheer ignorance of the politically tuned out.

Someone beat me to it.

And don't underestimate the sheer stupidity of the politically tuned in (ie: Tea Party).

randomjsa:
3) Balanced budget amendment, and no, not the moronic one the liberals support

Problems solved.

Problem solved my ass. We have a BBA in Missouri and we somehow are still strapped for cash and raping our education system to help plug up the deficit.

randomjsa: 1) Term limits

2) Elected persons are subject to laws they pass

3) Balanced budget amendment, and no, not the moronic one the liberals support

4) Congress actually has to abide by the constitution

Problems solved.


Thank God you're not a reductionist or anything. You almost said something completely meaningless!

basemetal: Well they couldn't do much worse.

Imagine if they were all Republicans.

The country run like a Rassmussen poll? Only people with listed land lines are eligible?

I'd probably be willing to stick with Boehner and Cantor than go with a random bunch of technophobes.

IlGreven: Aarontology: You know those random people in the phone book? They're the ones who voted the current batch of tards into office.

Odds are you're wrong on that. They're even worse: They didn't vote, and thus allowe the current batch of tards in by default.


The random people from the phone book did, however, agree that random people from the phone book would outperform congress.

Which, put in those terms, isn't terribly surprising either.

Folks in the white pages who can do better than the current crop of congress critters:

Harry Balls

Fuk Yu

Henauder Titzoff

Shlong Long

Stupa Azole

Milow Ball

Mike Hawk

One problem is that while many people hate Congress as a whole, they continue to like their own representation in Congress. Everybody else's rep is an idiot, so to speak.

Another issue is that politics in this country has degraded even further to an us-versus-them contest. It is less about finding solutions that everyone can be happy with and more about ensuring that the opposing side fails. It is as if everything wrong with sports has spilled over into politics.

Lastly, we give a great deal of power to a minority of people to choose who we will vote for in the political process. Just look at the handful of people involved in the presidential caucuses versus the general population overall. They drive the election and we're stuck in the rumble seat wondering which ditch we're gonna end up in.

I have been saying this for years.

Select representatives from the list of registered voters at random. They serve for one year and out.
Refuse to serve and lose your right to vote for life, and perhaps a fine for every year you voted before refusing your obligation to serve. You can be excused for very limited reasons, such as infirmity due to age.

They can be compensated in whatever way the previous session determines is fair.
I suggest tax exempt for life to encourage people to accept.

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johnnyrocket: Folks in the white pages who can do better than the current crop of congress critters:

Harry Balls

Fuk Yu

Henauder Titzoff

Shlong Long

Stupa Azole

Milow Ball

Mike Hawk

Punch Rockgroin

Impasse: johnnyrocket: Folks in the white pages who can do better than the current crop of congress critters:

Harry Balls

Fuk Yu

Henauder Titzoff

Shlong Long

Stupa Azole

Milow Ball

Mike Hawk

Punch Rockgroin

Slap Bulkhead

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No. The only people in the phonebook now are the old and out of touch people. Also, as crazy and stupid as many Congresspeople are, you just have to go to YouTube or any news site's comments (Fark is better than most) to see how horribly this could turn out.

Uggh, that's one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. It's Generic Republican Syndrome on an even more massive scale. People imagine these random people will somehow agree with them on every issue. Hell, the whole "oh, he's just like me, he shares my concerns!" routine is partly how we got into this mess in the first place. What we'd get is a group of dickweeds every bit as brainless as we've got now, but without the political know-how and awareness of the issues the current crop has to demonstrate. Random selection gets you birthers and conspiracy theorists.

Remember, a vote for (opens phone book)... Mitch Fugitt is a vote for victory!

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Brown dude just to the right (our right) of WTF is Hansen Clarke, first-termer from Detroit. Half-black, half-Bengali, all awesome.

ParallelUniverseParking: Punch Rockgroin

Slap Bulkhead

flamingboar: Big Mclarge Huge

Bob Johnson!