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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (10472)2/1/2006 11:28:58 AM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 541477
 
SOTU: Anti-corruption?

I have been complaining for several years about elected officials who commit a breach of trust with the voting public. After all, they are in office only as a matter of public trust having been lent to them, via the voting process. The moment it can be demonstrated that they have violated an oath or are in substantial breach of the public trust, which defines their social contract, they should be suspended from duty and charged with a crime.

"Each of us has made a pledge to be worthy of public responsibility, and that is a pledge we must never forget, never dismiss and never betray." (Bush 2006)

I doubt whether any congressman would sponsor such an anti-corruption bill, but I would certainly vote for anyone who did this in earnest, regardless of their party affiliation.
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