They are ALL scum of the earth, I would prefer someone in there that does not want the job but gets drafted into it, they should also not be paid, they should have to work normal jobs and not be on any committees that have anything with what they do for a living. They should also be subject to the blue juice if they get caught taking bribes or dealing under the table.
Did you see that Pelosi news blip, she had no idea that they were waterboarding prisoners in gitmo. She's on the $#%$# committee that oversees it and did not know, even after they briefed her, She's a DAM LIAR from the get go, why do you Kalifornians keep sending her back there.
Believe me, it's not my idea! (Then again, I don't self-identify as "Californian" anyhow - I consider myself an "Expatriated American" while I'm here.)
The more I hear about things like this, the more I like the "Political Lottery" idea.
Take the voter registration rolls, and put them into a single computer. The computer selects people at random - the terms are the same, but the people it picks get checked out to see if they meet with the Constitutional requirements of the office they're selected for.
If they pass, they serve one term in that office. Then, they're exempt from holding office for a like term of years. You get
one term at a time to do anything. Period.
Eliminate the "committees" - they haven't really done anything useful anyhow.
Appoint someone - just a man on the street - as a "Secretary of Common Sense." If Congress & Senate can agree on a bill, it goes to SCS. SCS reads the bill. If it takes him too long to read it, it gets kicked back to be simplified. If it doesn't pass Constitutional muster, it gets kicked back or just shredded. If it doesn't pass the Common Sense test ("Why do we need this? What do we get out of it relative to what we put into it? Is there already a law that applies to what this is meant to do?") it gets shredded, and a note gets sent back saying why.
Hell - make the SCS a panel of three or five - an odd number, so there are no deadlocks. But a small odd number.
If it gets through Congress, the Senate, and SCS,
then it can go to the sitting President.
And, appoint a panel (say, seven or nine people) to go through all of the laws we already have - most of which we probably don't need - and decide which ones we should just do away with. I'm sure the number of those is Legion. It takes a "majority plus one" (5/7 or 6/9) to decide whether to keep or scrap a law. If it can't get "M+1" votes either way - table it and come back to it later. If it fails for number of votes the second time, scrap it out of hand.
Pay? You either make what you were making before you were drafted into office (unless you make more - then you get knocked down to whatever current pay is,) or you can make about half of what they get now if you don't make anything beforehand (in the event of the unemployed, on disability, ...)
No pay rises can take effect until
everyone who is currently in office is out of office.
Total turnover for a pay rise to be effective.
"Aw Hell, honey! They want me in the Senate next year! I just finished with being President six years ago..."
) However, any job that requires continuous re-training/updating, etc. would be affected by a few years off. Imagine, for example, how the future earnings of a software engineer would be affected by a 1/2 decade break in employment.
