The Anti-Tea Party Member Amendment
Dr. J. has been receiving daily emails from Congressman Jim Cooper (D-New Atlantis) updating him regarding the debt ceiling.
In his latest missive to the Doctor he included the following:
Stop Member Pay Act
My bill to end Congressional pay during a default will be introduced this week, and already other Members of Congress are joining as co-sponsors.
My bill to end Congressional pay during a default will be introduced this week, and already other Members of Congress are joining as co-sponsors.
Now you may be saying to yourself, “Yea!, Go Coop, stick it to the man! Hold Congress’s feet to the fire! Why should they get paid if we default?”
Well, things are not always what they seem in Washington. Many of our congressmen and senators are wealthy, especially on the Democratic side of the aisle.
When the new freshmen congressmen came to town there were articles here, and here describing them sleeping in their offices. While the articles romanticized the idea of not becoming ‘part of Washington,’ the reality is that Washington is expensive and having two homes is expensive. These guys aren’t as wealthy as some of the career politicans, some of whom are trustafarians.
What this does is leverage pressure against the freshman, Tea-party, citizen legislators to vote expeditiously rather than on principle, because unlike the trustafarians, they can’t afford not to.
Class warfare at its finest. Don’t be fooled by this populist pablum, America.
