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96% of Incumbents Get Reelected!



Great job America! Way to hold Congress accountable for what they've done! You just allowed 96% of the incumbents to be reelected, the exact same s.o.b.s that just committed the worst screwing and betrayal of the American people in history by Bailing Out Wall Street and giving them total control of the U.S. Treasury! Oh and we can't forget the blanket immunity that was thrown in for good measure. You just threw away a golden opportunity to hold them all accountable. You just ignored an incredible chance to FIRE THEM ALL! Instead of voting them all out of office, half the voters were content to just dance around singing the mantra "Change We can Believe In" as if it was actually going to happen without cleaning out the den of thieves in the Congress.

While all attention was fixated on the totally controlled presidential race, everyone ignored the heart of the problem, the Congress! The powers-that-be con everyone into believing all the power lies with El Presidente. Well, it doesn't my friends. The Congress has more power than the executive branch and . . .



The President has no Constitutional authority to do most of the things they claim they can do. They can only ask the Congress to do what they want. The Congress could have stopped everything that's happening; the wars, the Wall Street takeover, the TRILLION DOLLAR defense budget they just passed. Our so-called representatives have sold us out so many times it makes my head spin and what do we all do? We not only let them keep their jobs, but you watch, they will most likely give themselves a raise, like they always do, for the fine job of screwing us they've done over the last two years. The way we hold our representatives accountable is to let them keep their $14,000 a month jobs so they can stick it to us for another two years!

I just went through all the Congressional races and could not believe what happened!  Only 67 seats turned over.  And of those 67 seats, 37 turned over because the incumbents retired or died.  So that leaves only 30 seats in which incumbents were actually defeated in the 2008 election. 

I can't tell you how many times I heard people pissing and moaning about how we need to hold Congress accountable for what they've done.  I can't tell you how many times I've hear people stomping around, especially after the Wall Street Bailout, hemming and hawing about what a bunch of traitors their Congress critters were and how they betrayed us yet again. 

So what do the American people to about it.  WE REELECT THE BULK OF THEM ALL OVER AGAIN!  And have you noticed that nobody is talking about the fact that the bulk of Congress got reelected?  I haven't heard anyone? I haven't heard any so-called patriot group, no patriot radio shows, I haven't heard anyone mention the fact that after all the hemming and hawing and pissing and moaning about what Congress has done, THE BULK OF THEM GOT REELECTED!  We allowed most all of them to keep their jobs!

We really need to get a grip people.  How is allowing most every incumbents to be reelected every single time holding them accountable for anything?   It's become crystal clear to me that the Congress is not our problem.  WE ARE THE PROBLEM.   The American people don't have an ounce of common sense left anymore.  The bulk of us are clearly quite a few cards short of a deck.  WE do the same thing over and over and expect somehow we're going to get different results.  WE'RE FRIGGIN NUTS!!

Check out these statistics from Open Secrets.   You look at these numbers and tell me how we are not the problem?

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Few things in life are more predictable than the chances of an incumbent member of the U.S. House of Representatives winning reelection. With wide name recognition, and usually an insurmountable advantage in campaign cash, House incumbents typically have little trouble holding onto their seats—as this chart shows.


Senate races still overwhelmingly favor the incumbent, but not by as reliable a margin as House races. Big swings in the national mood can sometimes topple long time office-holders, as happened with the Reagan revolution in 1980. Even so, years like that are an exception.

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