Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Angel Eyes on December 17, 2010, 05:23:01 PM
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. . . that they have to work next week:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/17/hoyer-pushes-for-short-term-spending-bill/?hpt=T2
I have mixed feelings about this. I have to work next week. Most of my friends have to work next week. Why should House Congresscritters get the time off?
On the other hand, they'll do less damage to the nation if they're not in session.
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. . . that they have to work next week:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/17/hoyer-pushes-for-short-term-spending-bill/?hpt=T2
I have mixed feelings about this. I have to work next week. Most of my friends have to work next week. Why should House Congresscritters get the time off?
On the other hand, they'll do less damage to the nation if they're not in session.
World's smallest violin, playing just for them.
I'm working nights next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, on my regular schedule. My first actual Christmas off (as in, Eve and Day both) in 3 years, IIRC - and out of the last ten years, I've spent 6 or 7 working at least Christmas Eve or Day, if not both (which I did 3 times in that timeframe) - and then we can talk about the six years I spent in the Navy. Policritters complaining because they don't get schoolkid-type Christmas-week vacations? Boo-frickin'-hoo. :mad:
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Boo-frickin'-hoo, indeed. This year I'm working the 24th-26th and the 31st-2nd. For the past 8 years I've worked better than 80% of the common holidays. This kind of crap just annoys me more than anything else.
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<I keep looking around for some sympathy and none is found. I know I had some here just a minute ago. Wonder where it went.>
I've worked Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years for the past 3 years. I'm off for all three this year.
That said, it is better they go home because of the damage they have done and could do if left unattended.
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You call that "work?"
Only in the New America is concerted destructiveness called work.
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They should just be glad that they have paying jobs ;/
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I'm more concerned about the kind of "work" they're doing....the next Congress will have to spend their first six months repealing all this crap... :facepalm:
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Boo fricken who is absolutely the right thing to say!
and then we can talk about the six years I spent in the Navy. Policritters complaining because they don't get schoolkid-type Christmas-week vacations? Boo-frickin'-hoo.
Nobody forced them to run for Congress and more importantly, nobody forced them to not pass a spending bill long before this. Sounds like they did this to themselves.
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<snip>....the next Congress will have to spend their first six months repealing all this crap... :facepalm:
T'wer me, I wouldn't get my hopes up about any repeals. I really don't expect any.
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T'wer me, I wouldn't get my hopes up about any repeals. I really don't expect any.
...then maybe we should start repealing those congresscritters....
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...then maybe we should start repealing those congresscritters....
Maybe, but Obama is still the president, and not much can be repealed over a presidential veto in six months. And don't forget that the Senatorial house-cleaning has not taken place yet.
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I have mixed feelings about this. I have to work next week. Most of my friends have to work next week. Why should House Congresscritters get the time off?
On the other hand, they'll do less damage to the nation if they're not in session.
I'd be happy if they were paid never to show up for a single day.