"...Democrats could care less about families..." Unbelievable!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16065625/

"WASHINGTON - Forget the minimum wage. Or outsourcing jobs overseas. The labor issue most on the minds of members of Congress yesterday was their own: They will have to work five days a week starting in January.

The horror

Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the Maryland Democrat who will become House majority leader and is writing the schedule for the next Congress, said members should expect longer hours than the brief week they have grown accustomed to.

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"Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says."



And this is the party that says NO ENTITLEMENTS!!!

Did someone forget to tell them that the job is in Washington? That they have to actually be in D.C. to do the job? Well, welcome to the real world, Repukes. We have to keep our families together, working for much lower wages, and getting a two week vacation per year. Yes, we work 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. What a bunch of lazy, spoiled whiners.

Never mind that your constituents are working 60 hour weeks, minimum, if they still HAVE jobs.

I wish we'd managed to get rid of ALL those overpaid, overprivileged crybabies on the right.

to them.

This whole story makes me just totally ill. No wonder Congress has such low approval numbers.

that I'm assuming he and his spouse have agreed that he should do, then he's got a lot more problems than a regular 5 day work week.

I just fits in with Republican civic philosophy. They HATE government, so why should they have to waste their time governing when, after all, GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM! Or so said St. Ronnie. Besides, it takes only three days a week to add earmarks on bills, thereby earning their K Street kickbacks.

:rofl: Good one!!

Beyond that, if the little dickwad, Kingston, doesn't want to work, I'm sure that someone else would be glad to take over for him.

for him would be a Democrat.

What's the story behind the weird time?

I agree with you. It's weird. I don't know the reason for it. In any case, though, they still have from 2:00 PM, on Fridays, until 6:30 PM, on Mondays, and that's more downtime than most of the rest of us get.

Monday...if you don't want to miss the vote, you'll be there. So you can miss discussion of whatever the vote is on, but what counts is your presence to vote, and Hoyer is going to schedule votes at 6:30 on Mondays to force everyone back into town.

Some of us discussed this very topic earlier today.

See:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2867907

EVIL!!!!111

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within the Republican Party.

"Could care less..."

I can only assume the INTENT of the speaker was "couldn't care less," which has a completely different connotation than the phrase actually used. "Could care less" seems to indicate that they COULD care less than they do, which means they care to some extent, doesn't it?

That particular phrase, used in that manner, tends to piss me off. Misuse of language.

And that's without even touching on the crux of the matter. As long as WE ordinary people are expected to work 40 hour weeks or better just to make ends meet, and sacrifice time with OUR families for a much smaller paycheck, I will respectfully suggest they go fuck themselves.

This misuse: " could care less" for "could NOT care less" has irritated me for a long time.

to an issue about Congress actually doing their job. More from the article:

"House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), one of the architects of the lighter workweek, put the best Republican face on Hoyer's new schedule.

"They've got a lot more freshmen then we do," he said of the Democrats. "That schedule will make it incredibly difficult for those freshmen to establish themselves in their districts. So we're all for it."


In other words, we're glad the Dems are going to do what they were sent to Washington to do, so that we can use dirty tricks in the next election and get them out. Not one word about bipartisan in that response. Blunt, of course, is a horse's ass.

40 hours a week?

My god, who will tell the children?

I remember seeing him on Bill Maher's show recently. The topic of gay marriage came up, and Alec Baldwin asked Kingston why gays shouldn't be able to get married.

Kingston said, paraphrasing, "Just because" or some stupid shit like that.

scandal (what happened to him, btw?) to lie about Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership being the ones to leak Foley's emails to the press?

http://kingston.house.gov/blog/?p=573

He also attacked Cindy Sheehan, calling her a "nutcase.":

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Republican_congressman_brags_of_calling_Cindy_0331.html

If they are going to work four days a week, their salaries should be cut accordingly.

pay increase for themselves every year, and now are complaining that they no longer have a short work week.

The hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me.

and seriously i almost tumbled off my elliptical.

He should resign then and quit his whining.

I'm sure plenty of other capable people would be willing to serve in his seat and collect a six figure paycheck. This reminds me of Dick Armey complaining on election night about all the "good, innocent people" who were thrown out of their jobs.

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work week at the wages they are earning...Welcome to the real world Repubs.

to keep the House in session for more hours each week tells me that they in fact DO care about families - OUR families - one hell of a lot more than the Pukes do.

What an arrogant idiot! :puke:

Lets hope DEMS in GA are making hey with Kingston's lunacy. Lots of publicity folks!

From all of us with children that work 5 days a week (myself included)...

F-OFF Jack!

Bush said that's it's hard work!!! Didn't he get the memo???