There should be a law prohibiting any politician who holds an elective office from running for president. Seeking the White House is a full-time endeavor, that renders a presidential hopeful incapable of doing anything else.
From ThinkProgress.Com:
“Busy campaigning for his presidential bid, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has missed over 40 consecutive roll-call votes, going five straight weeks ‘without casting a vote on the Senate floor.’”
More than half of the senators are millionaires, any member of this millionaire club should at the very least forfeit his salary while he is seeking higher office.
McCain, Clinton, Obama, Dodd, Brownback, Biden and the other presidential aspirants who hold elective office should be ashamed to cash their checks. They are cheating their constituents of effective representation in Congress.ÂÂÂ
From ThinkProgress.Com:
“Yesterday, after apparently skipping most of the extended closed-door White House/Senate immigration negotiations, McCain ‘suddenly re-emerged’ to take part in the press conference announcing the deal.”
This blatant attempt to grab the spotlight didn’t sit to well with McCain’s colleagues. Sen. John Cornyn, a fellow Republican, accused McCain of being “too busy running for president.†McCain replied with a succinct: Fu** You.
No, Fu** You Senator McCain! The crotchety politico should resign from the Senate, or donate his salary to charity.
If I extended my breaks and lunch hour and sometimes stayed at home to take online courses that would qualify me for a promotion; I would be fired before I could say, “Oh Fu**”.
I would think twice about voting for a presidential candidate who is so blinded by personal ambition that he neglects his congressional duties.
