Congressman, it's called doing your job...

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You see, there is this little thing called a "Republic" where people vote other people to get together and make decisions about how the nation is going to be run.  It works pretty well, but it has two big weaknesses:

1. The people doing the voting have to actually care enough want to to educate themselves on the people they are voting for, and then take the time actually do it.
2. The elected officials have to actually care enough to educate themselves on the things they are voting on, and then actually take the time to do it.

If those two things don't happen, you can pretty much chuck the whole system out the window.

My solution?  Well as much as I'd love to restrict the sovereign franchise to people who actually care what happens around them (a la Starship Troopers), you can't really chuck the voters.  But that doesn't mean you have to keep lazy  morons like this in the Congress of the United States.  Especially when they have the unmitigated gall to call onto the carpet people that are simply asking them to do the job that they were elected to do.

There is a Pledge Card that is circulating around Congress asking that Members take a pledge to actually read the Health Care Reform Bill before they vote on it, and allow the American People 72 hours to read it before it is voted on by Congress.  That seems pretty fair to me.

So far, the people that have actually agreed to take that pledge are the following:

Rep Rodney Alexander, LA - 05
Rep Steve Austria, OH - 07
Rep Michele Bachmann, MN - 06
Rep Spencer Bachus, AL - 06
Rep Brian Bilbray, CA - 50
Rep Gus Bilirakis, FL - 09
Rep Rob Bishop, UT - 01
Rep Marsha Blackburn, TN - 07
Rep Roy Blunt, MO - 07
Rep John Boehner, OH - 08
Rep Paul Broun, GA - 10
Rep Ginny Brown-Waite, FL - 05
Rep Michael Burgess, TX - 26
Rep Dan Burton, IN - 05
Rep Ken Calvert, CA - 44
Rep Dave Camp, MI - 04
Rep John Campbell, CA - 48
Rep Eric Cantor, VA - 07
Rep John Carter, TX - 31
Rep Bill Cassidy, LA - 06
Rep Mike Castle, DE - 00
Rep Jason Chaffetz, UT - 03
Sen Tom Coburn, OK
Rep Mike Coffman, CO - 06
Rep Tom Cole, OK - 04
Rep Mike Conaway, TX - 11
Sen John Cornyn, TX
Rep John Culberson, TX - 07
Rep Geoff Davis, KY - 04
Sen James DeMint, SC
Rep Charlie Dent, PA - 15
Rep Mary Fallin, OK - 05
Rep Jeff Flake, AZ - 06
Rep John Fleming, LA - 04
Rep Randy Forbes, VA - 04
Rep Virginia Foxx, NC - 05
Rep Trent Franks, AZ - 02
Rep Scott Garrett, NJ - 05
Rep Jim Gerlach, PA - 06
Rep Phil Gingrey, GA - 11
Rep Louie Gohmert, TX - 01
Rep Kay Granger, TX - 12
Rep Sam Graves, MO - 06
Rep Ralph Hall, TX - 04
Rep Gregg Harper, MS - 03
Rep Dean Heller, NV - 02
Rep Jeb Hensarling, TX - 05
Rep Wally Herger, CA - 02
Rep Duncan Hunter, CA - 52
Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison, TX
Sen James Inhofe, OK
Rep Darrell Issa, CA - 49
Sen Mike Johanns, NE
Rep Jim Jordan, OH - 04
Rep Steve King, IA - 05
Rep Jack Kingston, GA - 01
Rep John Kline, MN - 02
Rep Doug Lamborn, CO - 05
Rep Bob Latta, OH - 05
Rep Kenny Marchant, TX - 24
Rep Kevin McCarthy, CA - 22
Rep Michael McCaul, TX - 10
Rep Cathy McMorris Rodgers, WA - 05
Rep John Mica, FL - 07
Rep Jerry Moran, KS - 01
Rep Sue Myrick, NC - 09
Rep Pete Olson, TX - 22
Rep Ron Paul, TX - 14
Rep Mike Pence, IN - 06
Rep Joe Pitts, PA - 16
Rep Todd Platts, PA - 19
Rep Bill Posey, FL - 15
Rep Tom Price, GA - 06
Rep Adam Putnam, FL - 12
Rep Denny Rehberg, MT - 00
Rep Harold Rogers, KY - 05
Rep Tom Rooney, FL - 16
Rep Paul Ryan, WI - 01
Rep Steve Scalise, LA - 01
Rep Pete Sessions, TX - 32
Rep John Shadegg, AZ - 03
Rep Lamar Smith, TX - 21
Rep Mark Souder, IN - 03
Rep John Sullivan, OK - 01
Rep Todd Tiahrt, KS - 04
Rep Patrick Tiberi, OH - 12
Rep Fred Upton, MI - 06
Sen David Vitter, LA
Rep Zach Wamp, TN - 03
Rep Lynn Westmoreland, GA - 03
Rep Joe Wilson, SC - 02
Rep Robert Wittman, VA - 01
Rep Frank Wolf, VA - 10

Take a good look at that list...you won't find a Democrat on it.