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Posted at 4:00pm on Jul. 10, 2008 Tell Democrats to Stop Trying to Block Communication Between Representatives and the American People [Updated with Widget]
By Congressman Mike Conaway
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-Congressman Mike Conaway]
As reported yesterday here on RedState, Congressional Democratic leaders, who promised in 2006 to create a more "open" government, are now proposing a new rule that would prevent Members of Congress from using the Internet to communicate with the American people unless the Web site they are using has been "approved" by a panel responsible for creating internal House rules.
Millions of Americans, and hundreds of Representatives -- including myself -- use video-sharing Web sites like YouTube, personal blogs, and online community sites like Red State to keep track of what is going on in Congress, to provide constituents with information and insight, and to build and foster communication between elected representatives and the American people.
The Internet and the New Media have made Congress more transparent, sometimes against its will, and have better empowered Americans to hold elected officials accountable for their actions, statements, decisions, and votes. Instead of embracing and working to further this new level of openness and transparency, as they promised when they were candidates for office, Democratic leaders are fighting to close the new lines of communication between politicians and the people that the Internet has opened.
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Posted at 11:58am on Dec. 12, 2007 Flowers For Algernon...err, I Mean, Pelosi
average mouse turned genius turned average mouse-all in one session of congress
By haystack
Nancy Pelosi seems hell-bent on reliving Charlie Gordon and his buddy Algernon's lives as detailed in the famous "Flowers for Algernon" novel/novella. After all, in the original piece Algernon was a dumb mouse turned genius turned dumb mouse.
Of course, in Algernon's case it was chemically induced...they don't test for these things in Congress critters so we'll never actually know if ole Nance had help along the way to her miserably failed position as Speaker of the House...but boy howdy has she returned to her original "dumb" status all the same.
I'm reminded of an old song that pays some degree of homage to the original story:
His operation made him smart
He ran the maze so good
But always had some time to be my friend
We used to race and he would win
It always made me mad at him
But he would still be nice even then
Ya know...if you replace the word operation with election, we might be ON to something here.
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