I can't imagine Myself Agreeing with Bobby Jindal,..... But He Might Be Right on this one. Whoa!

This is posted in context from NPR News.


December 28, 2010
Next week, hordes of conservative Republican lawmakers will descend on Washington to take their seats in the freshman class of the 112th Congress. But some prominent conservatives suggest the best thing lawmakers can do to fix Capitol Hill is to stay the heck away from it.

"We used to pay farmers not to grow crops. Let's pay congressmen to stay out of Washington, D.C.," Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal recently told Human Events. In a new book, Jindal makes a serious case for a return to a part-time Congress, among other things. He argues that once elected, lawmakers who once promised to change Washington "become part of the problem" and turn into a "permanent governing political class."

His solution? "Make them part-time, give them term limits. Don't let them become lobbyists. When they have to live under the same rules and laws they pass for the rest of us, maybe you'd see some more common sense coming out of Washington, D.C."

Echoing Jindal's call for a return to a citizen-legislature, conservative columnist Cal Thomas writes on his website, "The Founders were keenly aware of the danger of a Congress divorced from the realities of the rest of the country."

[My comment follows...MS]

The truth is our members of congress are so out of touch with the American people they don't seem to have a clue what we want or need. The fact that Republicans had to be shamed into stopping their filibustering of the "9/11 Health Bill" is a graphic example just how out of touch they are. The lack of the "Public Option" in the recently passed "National Health Care Bill" is another example of just how out of touch they are.

In one of my posts dated December 2, 2010, written by A.B., she states that Congress should hold a "Constitutional Convention" for the purpose of enacting a "28th Amendment to the United States Constitution".
The proposed 28th Amendment to read as follows........
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."

Maybe it is time for Congress to get back into the job pool, and work for a living. Term limits would definitely help. In this age of computers, however, it's not like they couldn't stay tuned in from their constituent's districts. Their connection to their constituency, is skewed in perspective of the problems that Americans face on a daily basis. Special interest lobbyist have their constant ear, while the American people have to voice their concerns from afar, and in most cases those concerns are further diluted by filtering through their representative's aides. If Congress had to go back to the real world, even on a part time basis, it would break down their "elitist" perspective of how they relate to real America.