When the Republicans controlled Congress, during the Bush Jr administration, they fought tooth and nail against clamping down on illegal immigration despite the fact that polls showed that the American electorate wanted them to do something about the problem (View polling data here). After Democrats gained control of congress in 2006 nothing changed. Both parties have thumbed their noses at the American electorate in regards to stopping the flow of illegal immigration. Instead they tried to push an amnesty bill on us, which the majority of Americans opposed.

When both political parties work to dissuade congress from following the wishes of its constituents there is a serious problem with the way our government is operating. The parties have become their own voter block. The interests of America are no longer their concern, instead they look after their own interests which are shaped by greed for money and power. Americans have allowed the Republican and the Democrat parties to grab all power in our country. We can take back this power by exercising our right to vote in an effectual manner. As the two parties have grown more alike (to the point that they are really a single entity) whether we vote Democrat or Republican means nothing. The end result, which is the sack and pillage of the United States of America, is the same. It is time for Americans to vote for REAL change. A new party is needed but until that can be achieved we can do the most good by re-electing NO INCUMBENT during the next few election cycles.
Replace the face of congress

By replacing the party figureheads in congress we can start to reclaim our country. Career politicians are the party figureheads and are 100% vested in party politics. Career politicians are the party "enablers" and are the primary movers of party politics. Ensuring a high turnover in congress (replacing the party figureheads) during every election cycle is vital for ensuring that congress stay receptive to the will of the electorate. A congress person that assumes that his/her job is secure, despite their job performance, soon becomes nothing more then a tool of the parties.

Here we have a classic example of the Democrat controlled congress evading its constitutional duties (in regards to checks and balances) for the sake of the Democrat party. When our congress ignores the the law in order to protect their Republican and Democrat parties it is time to replace our congress.

We are used to saying "The democrats control congress" or "the republicans control congress" but did our nation's founders really expect Americans to hand over control of our legislature to a couple of political parties? I doubt it. We need to vote these traitors (of both parties) out of office.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini … 22787.html

Congress has already exempted itself from Public Option
By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
09/08/09 6:41 PM EDT

One of the clearest messages from the Town Hall forums during the August congressional recess was that people want Congress to be covered by the same health care reform plan they impose on the rest of us.

Members of Congress presently get health insurance coverage through the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), which offers enrollees nearly 300 choices among a variety of plans, coverages and costs.

The FEHBP covers federal employees and retirees, as well as Members of Congress, though the latter have additional perks of office that make their health coverage far better than that available - or affordable - for the vast majority of working Americans.

Public anger may explain why the White House is now insisting that Congress has not exempted itself from the Public Option, most notably in this new "Reality Check" video on the White House web site featuring former ABC reporter Linda Douglas, who now flaks for Obama as communications director for the White House Office of Health Care Reform.

The problem is, according to The Heritage Foundation's Robert Moffitt, the White House assertion is "incorrect."

And in this video  Moffit points to an amendment offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-NV, during a House Ways and Means Committee meeting just before the recess began that would have required Members to be covered by the Public Option plan if they approve it for private citizens.

Predictably, however, the Heller amendment was defeated, with all 21 committee Democrats voting against it. That vote is indicative of the reality that any bill requiring Congress to be covered by the same health care as the public has the proverbial snow ball in Hades' chances of being enacted.

Moffitt is presently director of health policy studies at Heritage. During the Reagan administrtion, he was assistant director for congressional relations at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which manages the government's health care program. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I also served as a Reagan appointee with Moffit at OPM, during my pre-journalism career days). In short, Moffit knows Congress and he knows FEHBP.

Moffitt is awfully diplomatic in terming the White House video "incorrect." Something more along the lines of "outrageous propaganda" comes to my mind.

One thing is certain, though - as a journalist who presumably knows the critical importance of getting the facts, Linda Douglas ought to be ashamed of herself, especially since she covered Congress for nearly a decade and thus presumably knows a thing or two about how Members of Congress have given themselves all sorts of perks, including a special place in FEHBP.

Just because you signed up to be a political appointee and left the newsroom behind doesn't mean you have to check your journalistic integrity at the door.

Clearly congress has no intention of lowering itself to our level by including itself in the health care plan that they are trying to push off onto the American public. 

Why should any of these supposedly "public servants" retain their seats?  In just three elections we could purge Washington of the rascals.