Cry-baby politicians continue to whine about working 5 days a week...

"Even before Democratic leaders have made good on promises to harness lawmakers five days a week, cross-party opposition is growing, with senators ready to revolt and House members simmering over the new schedule."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2652.html

Oh boo-fucking-hoo. These rich sons of bitches can't be inconvenienced with a work schedule that many Americans only dream of having.

Note to politicians, both Democrats and Republicans: If you don't want to represent us, get the hell out of politics and go back to your bourgeois law firms, and executive board rooms. You are parasites. Shut the hell up about working hard (remember Bush - working three jobs for shit wages is uniquely American) and the American dream and all the other lies you are so fond of telling.

Gawd I hate these people.

Bunch of pansies, they work for US, not the other way around and they need to remember that.

Members of Congress don't just work when they're in Washington or when Congress is in session. Whatever we may think of them, they have very grueling schedules and, for the most part, work extremely hard. When they're not actually in session, they're traveling in their districts, attending meetings, dealing with constituents, etc.

A Congressman told me that whenever he couldn't get back to his district on weekends to do town hall meetings, attend events, etc., his constituents complained that they never saw him. But then, when he made it home on weekends and showed up at the events they begged him to attend, they'd demand to know "why aren't you in Washington representing us!" "Either way, I can't win!" he said.

Yes, some Members are lazy asses. And the three-day-a-week sessions under Republican rule was ridiculous. But most of them, whatever we may think of their politics or philosophies, work damned hard, and I can understand why the new five-day sessions might be a strain (not that they shouldn't do it, but it ain't no cakewalk).

a grueling schedule should be the norm and widely accepted as a fact of life for these people. I know couples that rarely see eachother or their children because they are working multiple jobs. I know one couple that sees each only during the wee hours of the morning - while they are delivering papers together to supplement their measlely individual incomes.

Not only are most of our 'representatives' rich, but they have the best healthcare probably in the entire world. None of the people I know have great healthcare, hell, they'd be happy to have ANY healthcare, and the message they get from the political machine is 'keep working hard. Hard work builds character..." and all the other shit sandwiches we've been forced to swallow in this country. Meanwhile, oceans of tears are shed over a five day work week. Oh the humanity.

Personally, a rich man or woman complaining about their grueling schedule will receive in return nothing but bitter, resentful disdain from me. Frankly, I don't care. Cry me a river. Boo hoo. Poor babies.

so they can win elections, continue to have grueling schedules where they have to make the rounds and gather $$

There are too many American workers working more for less and with less job security all the time. I have little patience for whiny congressmen after their preformance the past few years.

They can work in Congress or they can work in the private sector. Nobody put guns to their heads and told them they had to run for Congress;) It isn't 9-5 and they bloody well knew it at the start. They just have to do the glad handing and begging on their own time now.

but when they get to DC it's too damn hard?!

Reason 4,831 (or I've lost count) why we need public financing. Give them time to actually, oh, I don't know, LEGISLATE?

and actually have to do with the REAL constituents from back home and their needs and wishes. Too many are agents of people like Abramoff, there to barter bucks for sweetheart legislation, contracts, $$.

The real problem for the whiners is not the long hours, but the fact that they NOW have to spend them actually doing the People's Business out in the open. They really seem to have a problem with that one;)

Public financing, yes, but they don't like the limits of same.

Sorry, I left my pity at the office the day my son was vomiting (Wednesday( and I worked from home with no compensation to meet a deadline.

for a job at a printing plant.the job she maybe getting is---12 hours 3day-4day and then due to that schedule she`ll work 7-12s with 7 days off. now if a 53 yr old woman can work that schedule i think these wimps can work 5 days...

Kudos to the senator from "bigsky country!"

I wish I still lived in MT so I could claim him instead of (barf) McCain. :cry: