{"id":4939,"date":"2010-08-11T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2010-08-11T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:02:21","slug":"qotd-treating-politicians-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/qotd-treating-politicians-correctly\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Treating politicians correctly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First off, every Congressman should be treated like a known member of the Mafia — we know the person is a criminal and we just don\u2019t have the evidence yet though we\u2019ll be working on it. Every Congressmen should have FBI agents assigned to tail him and report on everything he is doing. Everything a Congressman does and says should be recorded and made publicly available as well. As a trade-off to being some idiot spending trillions of our dollars, you have absolutely no expectation of privacy while in office. If you can\u2019t deal, don\u2019t be in Congress. And because these people create the laws, it should apply even more so to them. If they are ever convicted of anything, they automatically should get their sentence doubled.<\/p>\n

Right now Congress gets this idea they are better than us when really they\u2019re just idiots who meddle in things while other people actually do all the useful work in this country. It\u2019s time we treated them like lesser people with less rights and more suspicion. Then maybe they\u2019ll know their place.<\/p>\n

Frank J. Fleming, “We Need to Treat Congress More Like Crooks”, IMAO<\/em><\/a>, 2010-08-11<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First off, every Congressman should be treated like a known member of the Mafia — we know the person is a criminal and we just don\u2019t have the evidence yet though we\u2019ll be working on it. Every Congressmen should have FBI agents assigned to tail him and report on everything he is doing. Everything a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,57,53,41],"tags":[343,112],"class_list":["post-4939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-organizedcrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1hF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4941,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions\/4941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}