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Anonymous US congressman (allegedly) pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book - Drew Phipps - 13-05-2016
Anonymous US congressman pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book
May 13th 2016 5:00AM
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/13/anonymous-congressman-deeply-disturbing-tell-all-book/21376116/
A new tell-all book allegedly written by an anonymous U.S. congressman is sure to ruffle some feathers heading into the November election. The book, titled "The Confessions of Congressman X," is a "devastating inside look at the dark side of Congress as revealed by one of its own," according to the publisher. The anonymous author, said to be a Democrat, skewers their co-workers in a few excerpts that have been released by saying, "Most of my colleagues are dishonest career politicians who revel in the power and special-interest money that's lavished upon them."
A few other jaw dropping quotes from the upcoming book can be found here:
- "My main job is to keep my job, to get reelected. It takes precedence over everything."
- "Fundraising is so time consuming I seldom read any bills I vote on. Like many of my colleagues, I don't know how the legislation will be implemented, or what it'll cost."
- "We spend money we don't have and blithely mortgage the future with a wink and a nod. Screw the next generation. It's about getting credit now, lookin' good for the upcoming election."
Members of Congress are not the only ones on the chopping block; the author even rails against "incredibly ignorant" American voters, calling the country a "nation of naive, self-absorbed sheep who crave instant gratification." The mysterious tell-all book is set to be released on May 24, 2016.
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The book is published by Millcity Publishing from Minneapolis. It's a $10.00 paperback on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Congressman-X/dp/1634139739?tag=aolnews-20
Anonymous US congressman (allegedly) pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book - David Guyatt - 13-05-2016
An interesting read by the sound of it...
Anonymous US congressman (allegedly) pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book - Dawn Meredith - 13-05-2016
There should be some way people can run for office and have enough media coverage that all the time fundraising becomes both unnecessary and even illegal. Otherwise our elected officials are just bought and paid for whores.
Dawn
Anonymous US congressman (allegedly) pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book - Magda Hassan - 13-05-2016
Public finding of all elections and all candidates. No private donations allowed in cash or kind. Party income from membership dues only. Equal air time for all candidates/parties publicly provided.
Anonymous US congressman (allegedly) pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book - Marlene Zenker - 14-05-2016
Magda Hassan Wrote:Public finding of all elections and all candidates. No private donations allowed in cash or kind. Party income from membership dues only. Equal air time for all candidates/parties publicly provided.
Additionally, a shortened election cycle, say 3 to 6 months, all political commercials are limited to a public information channel available everywhere but nothing on regular TV or cable. Back to the law (forgot what it was called from not too many years back) that forbade congress members from becoming lobbyists for a certain amount of years, that should also apply to congressional aides, etc..
Some kind of limitations on lobbyists, the amount of time they can spend (if any) with congress members and more. Oh yeah, and the total dissolution of the mainstream media. LOL
Anonymous US congressman (allegedly) pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book - Peter Lemkin - 14-05-2016
Dawn Meredith Wrote:There should be some way people can run for office and have enough media coverage that all the time fundraising becomes both unnecessary and even illegal. Otherwise our elected officials are just bought and paid for whores.
Dawn
Congress of whores gets it about right...there being a very few who are not. Even more amazing to me it that the People keep electing [and worse, re-electing!] these trollops, and don't push for honest representatives. It is a very sad system of non-representation of the People and 'representation' of the highest payers to their pockets. And we look down our noses at countries in Africa and Asia, et al. with corrupt tinpot despots running the country for themselves, when we have the same going on in D.C.....
Anonymous US congressman (allegedly) pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book - Mark A. O'Blazney - 14-05-2016
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Dawn Meredith Wrote:There should be some way people can run for office and have enough media coverage that all the time fundraising becomes both unnecessary and even illegal. Otherwise our elected officials are just bought and paid for whores.
Dawn
Congress of whores gets it about right...there being a very few who are not. Even more amazing to me it that the People keep electing [and worse, re-electing!] these trollops, and don't push for honest representatives. It is a very sad system of non-representation of the People and 'representation' of the highest payers to their pockets. And we look down our noses at countries in Africa and Asia, et al. with corrupt tinpot despots running the country for themselves, when we have the same going on in D.C.....
If you click Congreessman X's name in blue at amazon, you shall see his editor's name is Robert Atkinson, with a brief CV.
Anonymous US congressman (allegedly) pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book - Magda Hassan - 14-05-2016
Marlene Zenker Wrote:Yep, I'd be for that. 'Lobbyists' could only post their ideas up on a public website for free where their issues could be debated by the public and other interest groups. No private contact. I reckon 10 years is a reasonable amount of time between senate or congress and aids etc and employment in industry. All election and lobbying commercials on public tv publicly paid. No paid commercials allowed. Nothing on commercial tv.Magda Hassan Wrote:Public finding of all elections and all candidates. No private donations allowed in cash or kind. Party income from membership dues only. Equal air time for all candidates/parties publicly provided.
Additionally, a shortened election cycle, say 3 to 6 months, all political commercials are limited to a public information channel available everywhere but nothing on regular TV or cable. Back to the law (forgot what it was called from not too many years back) that forbade congress members from becoming lobbyists for a certain amount of years, that should also apply to congressional aides, etc..
Some kind of limitations on lobbyists, the amount of time they can spend (if any) with congress members and more. Oh yeah, and the total dissolution of the mainstream media. LOL
Anonymous US congressman (allegedly) pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book - Drew Phipps - 14-05-2016
What about restrictions on writing "tell all books"?
Anonymous US congressman (allegedly) pens 'deeply disturbing' tell-all book - Magda Hassan - 14-05-2016
Tell all books are good Drew. Should be more of them. But probably better to fix the system that creates them in the first place.