14 Reasons Why My Kids Are Smarter Than Congress
In a Huffington Post article, it was reported that Congress’s approval rating was now lower than porn, polygamy, and the BP oil spill. This shouldn’t come as any surprise, given our elected official’s track record. You think that that Senators and House Representatives would be a smart, savvy bunch given what’s been entrusted to them, but sadly, that’s not the case. In fact, if Congress and my kids were to engage in an intelligence contest, my kids would have to take out their brains to make sure it was a fair fight. Here’s 14 reasons why:
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My Kids Know How to Pick Good Friends
A federal grand jury in Arizona indicted three-term Republican Congressman Rick Renzi and two of his business associates on charges that include wire fraud, money laundering, insurance fraud and extortion. Hey Rick, didn't your parents ever tell you not to hang with the wrong crowd?
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My Kids Know Stealing is Wrong
Congressman and one-time House Majority Speaker Tom Delay, apparently had a problem taking money intended for other things after a grand jury indicted DeLay in 2005 on a felony conspiracy charge to move $190,000 in corporate donations to Republican candidates in the Texas State Legislature in 2002.
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My Kids Know it's Wrong to Lie
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was convicted on seven charges of corruption in October 2008 after receiving gifts from an oil company and lying about it. After 40 years as a senator he then lost his bid for reelection the following month. Guess now he should be able to smell his pants are on fire with the long nose of his.
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My Kids Know You're Not Supposed to Cheat
Rep. Spencer Bachus is in the hot seat over allegations of insider trading for buying stock option funds that would profit if the market crashed just before the financial meltdown of 2008. (Coincidence?) Also up for scrutiny over making big money off of well-timed stocked moves--Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH).
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My Kids Can Tell Fact From Fiction
Rep. Michele Bachmann got herself some attention following a September Presidential debate when she tried to link the HPV vaccine to mental retardation. FICTION. When asked about the remark later, Bachmann said, "I didn't make any statements that would indicate I'm a doctor." FACT.
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My Kids Know How to Show Compassion to Others
Last December, Republicans showed what hard-asses they could be using a strong-arm tactic to ensure Bush tax cuts are extended to the wealthy by refusing to pass a measure that would provide health assistance to 9-11 responders. The bill did eventually pass. Ahhh, what a bunch of softies.
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My Kids Have Common Sense
School shootings happen every week? Companies are cross-breeding humans and animals? These are just a few of the things that have come out of Tea Party darling, Christine O'Donnell's mouth. Checking facts before speaking would seem like common sense.
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My Kids Are Courteous to Others
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) seemed to have a problem with manners during a 2009 speech to Congress by President Barack Obama. After the President made a statement concerning immigration reform, Wilson shouted "You lie!" His colleagues quickly condemned the outburst as well as Wilson's tendency to talk with his mouth full.
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My Kids Know Family is Important
Ask Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh (IL) to make a list of what's important to him and you'll probably get a whole bunch items, but what you won't see is, "taking care of your family." Walsh, who ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility owes over $100,000 in back-child support. Oh, and did I mention that Family Research Council gave Walsh an awarded last month for his support of families?
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My Kids Obey the Rules
In October 2010, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), once one of the most powerful members of the House, was convicted 11 counts of violating ethics rules and, boy, did the investigating committee stick it to him too by censuring him. Censure? Putting the kids in time-out is way worse than that.
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My Kids Can do Simple Math
The government spends more money than it makes. No kidding, I explained this concept to my 7 year-old stepdaughter, and she was able to grasp the mathematical impossibilities; so why can't Congress? Apparently even knowing the difference between "billions" and "trillions" is a problem for them.
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My Kids Know Tomato Sauce isn't a Vegetable
Pizza sauce is a vegetable? Sure it comes from a tomato, but all the lobbyist groups representing the other ingredients in the sauce pretty much keep it from being a vegetable. My kids love pizza, but even they can tell the difference.
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My Kids Know Not to Show People their Naughty Parts
This past June, then New York Representative Anthony Weiner (D) passed John Wayne Bobbit's for jokes concerning one's Johnson. His last name alone incited a 24-hour laugh-a-thon for my kids after my son asked,"Why would Weiner show is weiner to other people?" Good question.
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My Kids Know How to Get Along with Each Other
Sure my kids get into disagreements, but they know how to work things out too, which is more than anyone can say about Congress, which once again has failed at compromise with theSuper Committee. In a joint statement Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA.) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) said, "We have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee's deadline."
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The difference is that your kids don’t get rewards for ethics violations or have a million people breathing done their neck. Essentially, kids generally are idealists: they’re not “smarter” than Congress; they just see greater rewards than green paper with numbers and a face.
Eh, the kids ARE smarter – because they know money isn’t everything. Plus, when my 15 year old watches the news and is able to roll his eyes at what congress is saying/doing…and then make intelligent reasoning on why it isn’t a good idea – I’m pretty sure that makes kids one up on on congress. And, I should add – he’s been able to outsmart them for years…lol.
(Also – at my house – it only got better after Weiner’s situation, Bohner made the news…we couldn’t watch the news at all for awhile! haha)
The HPV vaccine may or may not be related to mental retardation, but it has caused deaths, as well as sickness called, if I remember right, the post-Gardasil syndrome. You can easily find well documented information about this at mercola.com and naturalnews.com, as well as several other reputable health sites that document their information and do not spout support for AMA/FDA so-called health practices that are actually either ineffective, dangerous, or both.
Also, Rep. Michele Bachmann is the only public figure that has had the courage to speak out about the dangers of Gardasil. Just because you say it is FICTION doesn’t mean that YOU, the writer of this piece, can tell fact from fiction. FACT.
“Naughty parts”? Is this is what you are teaching your children about the beautiful bodies they are born with?
Dear Friends:
Is it because they are watching live! Woman and military pushing up their boobs for the thrill of it!
Oh they want some too and the President is the Chief of Staff! Ok Chief!
Sovereignty Nations and Native Americans, you too serve respectively in the military! Revelree! The nursing ones walk out with their boobs out and pumps or babies hanging on them. Hey! Revelery more often than normal? Could be! Who is coming in to report! The Press! Take a picture it lasts longer!
Dear Friends:
What a career in the reer! Respect! Military, world impression, respectful to woman, wife, mother, and the uniform. Dismiss them, let them go home and take care of their babies.
Our tax dollars are not out here to send the wrong impression or message to the world about our military, or other. These were also seen by children across the USA. Men are taken to court at the expense of tax dollars for less than this. Our military expenses are not for pushing your boobs together or a job. Are they selling their milk? How much? A peep show for the other military? Then the men get taken to court or dismissed and charged with rape. do you feel these two woman deserved this a public prize. Some woman for indecent exposure or prostitution would get put in jail or stoned in some countries. Then we send our military to the front line or these countries. Get them out and off and charge with public indecent exposure. Tits or teets! Save it for your husband and in the privacy of a closed door to a room and protect your babies. These children will forever be labeled as those that were sucking on these tits and public for the thrill of it.
For another smart kid move–check out the blogspot for NeverSeconds by a kid who documented her school lunch to get it changed!