‘We’re running a f—ing casino’: Politician tells all in manifesto

[Sargon]

An anonymous congressman has dropped a bombshell election-year book that confirms

 

why Americans hate their national government and have rallied to anti-establishment presidential candidates like Donald Trump.

The veteran politician lays bare a rotten and corrupt Congress enslaved by lobbyists and interested only in re-election in an anonymous, 65-page manifesto called The Confessions of Congressman X.

Like most of my colleagues, I promise my constituents a lot of stuff I can never deliver, he admits. But what the hell? It makes them happy hearing it . . . My main job is to keep my job.

The House member a Democrat who is either still in Congress or served sometime over the past two decades says more time is spent fundraising than reading bills and calls Washington a sinkhole of leeches.

The title of one chapter sums up his view of congressional leaders: Harry Reids a Pompous Ass, he says of the Senate Democratic leader.

The book, published by the small Mill City Press, is based on years of transcribed private discussions, which the congressman last November gave editor Robert Atkinson.

 

Atkinson declined to say whether Congressman X is a current or former House member.

X says the cloak of anonymity gave him the freedom to expose ­secrets, including how the publics money is wasted.

We spend money we dont have and blithely mortgage the future with a wink and a nod. Screw the next generation. Its about getting credit now, lookin good for the upcoming election, he says.

He said he and his colleagues often lie to try to be all things to all people instead of tackling the nations problems.

I contradict myself all the time, but few people notice, X says. One minute I rail against excessive spending and ballooning debt. The next minute Im demanding more spending on education, health care, unemployment benefits, conservation projects, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Voters are described as gullible, know-nothing jerks, while the only people who count are the big donors who pour billions of dollars into lobbying.

Voters are incredibly ignorant. Its far easier than you think to manipulate a nation of naive, self-absorbed sheep who crave instant gratification . . ., vents Congressman X.

He says money corrupts and House members are puppets to lobbyists who bankroll their campaigns.

 

Americas on an irreversible decline and no one in Washington seems to care . . . God help us.

- Congressman X

Business organizations and unions fork over more than $3 billion a year to those who lobby the federal government. Does that tell you something? Were operating a fking casino, he says.

He describes himself as a closet moderate who supports charter schools and tax vouchers to allow poor kids to go to private schools.

But students take a back seat to partisan politics..

Our educations in the toilet, and all we do is snipe at each other, he says.

Congress is too polarized and partisan to get anything done, by the congressmans account.

There seems to be a complete disintegration of confidence in government. A fear that government is its own special interest, he says.

Americas on an irreversible decline and no one in Washington seems to care . . . God help us.

 

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[84HuskerLaw]

Meaningless unless the coward wants to come forward and confess publicly in person. No doubt a great deal of truth in what he (or she - though not likely a woman in this instance).

[JJ Husker]

I don't believe a word of this without his actual name attached. Wait, wait a minute......actually I do believe every word of it. Problem is, it's not news to anyone who has been paying attention. Whether or not it was written by an actual congressman, we all know it's true.

[NUance]

Meaningless unless the coward wants to come forward and confess publicly in person. No doubt a great deal of truth in what he (or she - though not likely a woman in this instance).

 

So then, your real name is "84HuskerLaw"? If not, I'd be glad to change your username to your real name.

[Scratchtown]

Meaningless unless the coward wants to come forward and confess publicly in person. No doubt a great deal of truth in what he (or she - though not likely a woman in this instance).

Yea, but you see how dangerous this way of thinking is?

 

We all know it's true yet sit with our heads in the sand and say "who freaking cares? The huskers play Oregon in september." It's the whole "name your sources or its not true bs". We vote for political party and yet most sheeple don't know they all are backed by the same people.

 

I understand with all the false reporting and all of that its hard to not be skeptical but sometimes it takes a little faith, takes a little belief in the dots being connected. It's insane to think there is an intentional agenda to crumble the democracy from within. However, maybe "insane" is truth?

 

"An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again, but one which crumbles from within? That's dead. Forever." - Baron Zemo (Captain America: Civil War)

[Scratchtown]

I don't believe a word of this without his actual name attached. Wait, wait a minute......actually I do believe every word of it. Problem is, it's not news to anyone who has been paying attention. Whether or not it was written by an actual congressman, we all know it's true.

Yea. This.

[cm husker]

Did he offer a solution?

[Lil' Red]

This LastWeekTonight video covers the fundraising issue:

 

 

[zoogs]

This magazine, right?

 

 

All I see is a politician trying to cash in on his cynicism. If he's gotten to that point, he should quit. Maybe write some sensationalist drivel about how politicians only pretend to care about the people, while pretending to really care about the people.

 

"AMERICA IS DYING/WAKE UP SHEEPLE" have always seemed like a good bunch to give credit to

 

Not to say we have a perfect system. We never have, and never will -- but we've always had, and continue to have engaged citizenry trying to keep this going. As well as all these doomsday heralds. Choose who you pay attention to, I guess.

[Sargon]

I don't believe a word of this without his actual name attached. Wait, wait a minute......actually I do believe every word of it. Problem is, it's not news to anyone who has been paying attention. Whether or not it was written by an actual congressman, we all know it's true.

Exactly. X is correct about (everything) the derpiness of the electorate. If not for that his/her stories wouldn't have occurred.

[Moiraine]

This is one reason I don't see why anyone is a staunch Democrat or staunch Republican. I can't be on either side when they've let this happen. It should not be legal to buy policy. That isn't democracy. The wealthy aren't evil by default but the wealthy who use their money to buy policy that helps their company and effs everyone else certainly are.

[It'sNotAFakeID]

This is one reason I don't see why anyone is a staunch Democrat or staunch Republican. I can't be on either side when they've let this happen. It should not be legal to buy policy. That isn't democracy. The wealthy aren't evil by default but the wealthy who use their money to buy policy that helps their company and effs everyone else certainly are.

 

What if they're buying good policy?

[The Dude]

"Voters are incredibly ignorant. Its far easier than you think to manipulate a nation of naive, self-absorbed sheep who crave instant gratification . . ."

 

 

 

Isn't this honestly the root of the problem? I'll be the first to admit I don't follow global or domestic politics closely enough to be an informed voter. Yet there I am at the voting booth, pretending my opinion matters.

 

I see most everyone lament the fact that our next President is going to be Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump, yet we do nothing about it. And honestly it feels like there's not much we can do about it, doesn't it?

 

Maybe the system is rigged in such a way we can't do anything about it, or maybe we're just too ignorant to figure it out.

[mrandyk]

"Voters are incredibly ignorant. Its far easier than you think to manipulate a nation of naive, self-absorbed sheep who crave instant gratification . . ."

 

 

 

Isn't this honestly the root of the problem? I'll be the first to admit I don't follow global or domestic politics closely enough to be an informed voter. Yet there I am at the voting booth, pretending my opinion matters.

 

I see most everyone lament the fact that our next President is going to be Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump, yet we do nothing about it. And honestly it feels like there's not much we can do about it, doesn't it?

 

Maybe the system is rigged in such a way we can't do anything about it, or maybe we're just too ignorant to figure it out.

Can't do anything about it? There are more than two names on the ballot come election time. If ever there were a time to vote third party it's clearly this year but most of this country blindly supports red or blue and so the cycle never breaks. I was very hopeful that Bernie would win his nomination just because he has historically been independent and it would potentially be a step away from the two-party system. He has failed though and has zero shot as an independent candidate. We did this to ourselves America. This two-party system is why we can't have nice things.

[Moiraine]

 

This is one reason I don't see why anyone is a staunch Democrat or staunch Republican. I can't be on either side when they've let this happen. It should not be legal to buy policy. That isn't democracy. The wealthy aren't evil by default but the wealthy who use their money to buy policy that helps their company and effs everyone else certainly are.

 

What if they're buying good policy?

 

 

lol. That's almost never the case. If it was, they wouldn't need to pay for it. It's normally things like lowering the amount a multi-billion $ corporation can get sued for when they do something horrible (e.g. BP and the oil spill), or making it so the safety inspectors for different industries are employed by the companies themselves, or the little "corporations are people" number.

 

When you have to pay off politicians to get something to pass, it's usually because it's something that probably shouldn't pass. It's usually something that's bad for the people.