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THROW THE BUMS OUT!!! **Updated**

No offense to BUMS but we need to make a simple statement. And this is an easy one.

From top to bottom the majority of our elected officials have been corrupted. This may be the easiest way to send a message accross the board. Maybe this has already started but I suggest we kick start the campaign for liberty with a THROW THE BUMS OUT initiative.

With a few exceptions, we promote the idea of voting against all incumbents. Whether Republican or Democrate or even Independent. We all agree to vote for whoever is running against the incumbent. This goes from the Congress all the way down to the county school board. Lets send a message that unless our elected officials start working for the people.... theyre GONE!

If we can't elect the next president at least we can get them shaking in their boots! Our movement is capable of effectively changing the outcome in at least 30-40 congressional seats and possibly hundreds of other races and if we promote the idea I'm sure we can find many people who agree with us! If we can grow our movement from 5-10% to 15-20% of the voters we could influence nearly every Congressional election and many state and local races as well!!

UPDATE 1 (6/22) Here's the HOT LIST of BUMS!

Those who voted for the FISA/ telecom immunity "compromise"

http://clerk.house.gov/ev...

Those who voted for the War Funding Supplemental "compromise"

Part 1 http://clerk.house.gov/ev...

Part 2 http://clerk.house.gov/ev...

UPDATE 2 (6/22)

The COWARDLY co-sponsors of House Con Res 362

http://www.govtrack.us/co...

A little 6 minute rant on THROWING THE BUMS OUT!
Just click "Here" and download the podcast.
http://mikeandjake.com/po...

UPDATE 3 (6/25)

I got this link from another post. It's a very good description of the problems we face with a possible solution.

I haven't viewed the entire series but I think it's educational at the least. We need to get rid of the "Incumbent Party"!!!

http://www.ourcaucus.com/

UPDATE 4 (7/24)

The latest Housing Bill HR 3221 Amounted to the largest Nationalisation of private property since the Russian Revolution, the instutution of a fingerprint registry for American citizens and another IRS draconian measure to record all credit card transactions... and Kucinich voted for it. So much for Kucinich as our freedom fighter.

http://clerk.house.gov/ev...

Senate passage of FISA (69-28)
http://senate.gov/legisla...

Senate confirmation of Gen. Petraeus (War Criminal) (95-2)
http://senate.gov/legisla...

Throw the Bums out!!!!

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So how do we do this?

Where do we get the funding to make this take off? This is an absolute must but how can it be accomplished?

Healthnut4freedom

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:5,6

Can We?

In God We Trust!

Great idea but can we also tar and feather their butts before they leave?

I mean this literally!

They need to be punished and out in the open!

This would be a grand deterrant!

I will supply tar, and those of you on the farms can supply the feathers?

Whatta ya say?

Wow, you could get bruises

Wow, you could get bruises bumping yourself that much ;-D

It is a worthy endeavor though so...bump.

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Wow...some Iowans are actually trying to....

make citizen's arrests. Rove will be caught sooner or later...

Please read this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/st...

Ahhhhh, an endeavor I highly endorse....

kickthemallout.com has a list of Congressional incumbents....

I was refering to the other parts of the housing Bill

Namely the establishment of a fingerprint registry for law abiding citizen's and the cataloging of information in regard to businesses having to report each and every credit card transaction to the government.

Yes I know Kucinich likes Socialist ideals... but if he really believes in the Bill of Rights or the responsability of Congress to allocate funds how could he possibly sign this Housing Bill?

http://emac.blogs.foxbusi...

This thing was written by the Bank of America... it's not helping people... just bailing out the mortgage investors, most of whom are foreign interests.

In regard to health care being delivered by the government... spend some time checking into the VA. The help you get there will give you a hint where this is going... a ill informed voter in a democracy is just as dangerous as a dictatorship!

Here's a story about govt controlled healthcare
http://www.militarytimes....

One thing I'm sure of, I'm sure you didn't hear about it in the mainstream media!

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com

I was refering to the other parts of the housing Bill

Namely the establishment of a fingerprint registry for law abiding citizen's and the cataloging of information in regard to businesses having to report each and every credit card transaction to the government.

Yes I know Kucinich likes Socialist ideals... but if he really believes in the Bill of Rights or the responsability of Congress to allocate funds how could he possibly sign this Housing Bill?

http://emac.blogs.foxbusi...

This thing was written by the Bank of America... it's not helping people... just bailing out the mortgage investors, most of whom are foreign interests.

In regard to health care being delivered by the government... spend some time checking into the VA. The help you get there will give you a hint where this is going... a ill informed voter is just as dangerous as a dictatorship!

Here's a story about govt controlled healthcare
http://www.militarytimes....

One thing I'm sure of, I'm sure you didn't hear about it in the mainstream media!

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com

The Senate passed the Socialist Housing Bill!

I'm sure our disgrace for a President George Bush won't have any problem signing the largest Socialist nationalization since the Russian Revolution... these are some sad sorry traitors to our Constitution... they need to be GONE!

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com

Kucinich voted for the socialist Housing BILL!

Apparently civil liberties don't mean that much to him after all...

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com

Kucinich was always a socialist, of course he'd vote for it.

Just because he doesn't believe in the Patriot Act doesn't mean that he doesn't CARE about people. The government should pay for health care and housing -- DUH!

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“Elections are short term efforts; revolutions are long term projects.”

--Ron Paul

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Until he gets a "compromise"

Check out this link. I watched the first 3 videos and it sounds pretty interesting!

http://www.ourcaucus.com/

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

More reasons to Throw the BUMS OUT!

THe Housing "Rescue" Bill... sounds so good doesn't it.... just like the Patriot Act. It's another boondoggle! Who needs help staying in a $730,000 home? I don't think its the average citizen...

this bill also adds more redtape for the average American small business and establishes a fingerprint registry! How does that help strapped homeowners????

Just tell these idiots to go home before they do destroy our country before the end of the YEAR!

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

I heard on the news that Bush may be planning to veto it.

If you're a Nevada delegate or know someone who is, click here!!
http://nevadagopconventio...
Historic moment at WA State Convention at minute 4 here!!
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
Convert a delegate here! www.dvds4delegates.com

Be sure to check out Senate candidate Bob Conley in SC

He voted for Ron Paul and sounds like a great candidate. And when you figure the current Senator Lindsey Graham is McCain's shadow and has been a big backer of amnesty for illegal imigrants... it's a great opportunity to show the Ron Paul Revolution supports honest conservatives who will support and defend the Constitution regardless if their a Republican or a Democrat.

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

Yes it's confusing... no doubt...now you see why the Congressmen

are fooled into believing their doing their job... there just as uninformed as the population. Just ask yourself if it's not changing anything... why would we need FISA? You have to agree the threat of terrorist is a joke. And based on that alone this makes no sense... this bill will allow increased intrusion into your and my privacy... and it won't be to find terrorist... it will be used to collect taxes, look for crimes (NY gov) or help big businesses keep us in our place.

Now Im not saying the terrorism from our government is going to change... in fact it is now be enhanced.

Another question to ask yourself... why would the telecom industry spend millions in lobbyists and TV commercials to pass something the majority of people are against?

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

Ron and Dennis seek plant based diet

Ron eats mostly plant based diet, limiting meat and dairy. And Dennis is a vegetarian. Another past congressman from Montana, Howard Lyman, went from being the 3d largest cattle rancher in the USA, to become a vegetarian and an advocate of environmental humane policies in farming.
This battle we are having has everything to do with the Trans Corridor Highway and how it affects that precious 6 inches of topsoil of which we are all dependent. It's like the highway is a giant pyramid, and all the pharoes are lining up to get a piece, slavery being supplied by run away immigration and the point of a gun.

You know, I agree with

You know, I agree with pitching incumbents after we look at their voting records..but this "fisa" bill has me buffaloed. I had a LONG debate with my congressmans office (we talked 3 times) and he won the debate. He read me parts of the bill. He swore everything was constitutional and that this bill was passed to STOP illegal wiretapping cold. The only other thing it did was to have the courts decide on immunity and not the House. He said it did NOT give telecoms immunity. Now I keep seeing all this stuff, but every time I mentioned any of it, he read those parts of the bill to me, and it didn't exactly say what everyone else says it does. I became very confused and still hardly know what to think. Opinion is one thing, but we need to know facts. I could find nothing in THIS particular bill that I could conclusively say, was wrong.
Anyone?

Here's something cool... they already have stuff for marketing!!

http://www.cafepress.com/...

http://www.cafepress.com/...

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

Remember the first 100 HRS? The Democrats promised...

they were going to get something done... we're still waiting!!

Check out this page from Pelosi's blog...at the bottom you'll find the 8 things they were supposed to get done in the first 100 hrs...apparently they should have prayed more... or God doesn't like them

http://housespeakeronline...

Apparently they forgot about the War... and shouldn't #9 be: Declare Impeachment 'off the table' ?

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

Check out the updates!

I added the voting record for the FISA bill and the War Supplemental. My congressman is one of the BUMS that need to be THROWN OUT!

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

Some things should be sacred

Some things should be sacred to all Americans no matter which party you are from. If any member in Congress votes in any way to threaten our rights, out he goes. If he violates his oath of office and votes in any way against the principles of the Constitution, out he goes.

If all Americans could see what blind party loyalty is doing to our country this project could work. That is why we need to approach the Democrats. Perhaps even a few Republicans could see past the Republican anthem and realize we need to do this.

Our elected officials need to start listening to the People. And they will not as long as they think they have life time employment. So this may be the only thing that will work.

That being said and at the risk of offending Bob Barr fans, we can not vote for him either because he voted for the Patriot Act. So even our Libertarian R3volution supporters need to put aside their blind libertarian loyalty and do what we need to do...... vote all incumbents out if they violate their oath of office. Easy as that!

I'm not saying this is the end all idea...I'm just saying this

is an opportunity to get people together. Vote fraud can only go so far... because if we start to work together on common interests pretty soon it will be obvious.

Isn't it obvious that the media tries real hard to develope two candidates and then makes sure to make sure that if one candidate gets out too far in front... they let some nasty info out to make sure it's close.

They want to keep us occupied and interested so we think were getting something we want. But this is an opportunity to ask for something they don't want to give us... using their system!

Can you see the genius of it?

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

No one is going

anywhere until we get open and honest elections. I don't see this happening anytime soon. Peace

They have violated their

They have violated their terms of employment....Fire Them!
http://www.dailypaul.com/...

Does some have the voting record for today's FISA vote?

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

good

idea!

bump.

i like it. :)

No offense taken...

LOL..

I totally agree and I tell everyone I know the same thing. All incumbents out now.It's time to clean house.

That's a real Revolution!

Bump-signed petition on line ..

calling for Pelosi's impeachment.

Libera me, let the truth break, what my fears make--Leslie Phillips

bump

for Liberty

In response to those who say we'll just be putting another...

corrupt politician in... I suggest that we have to live within the world of reality. Sure if theres a third party candidate vote for them...but there isnt going to be that many... we need to work with what we have and start from there

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

I like it!! The T.T.B.O. initiative

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"My role in the revolution is to wake up the lemmings of this country, who sit back and accept the pablum the media feeds them"
Jesse Ventura
Ventura/Paul 2008
http://www.gopetition.com...

Are the Incumbents the Problem or is it the Parties?

Replace a democrat with a democrat or a republican with a republican? I don’t believe this will restore good government to the people.

Every four years the American people focus their attention on choosing a presidential candidate from the Democratic party or the Republican party. The majority of citizens never consider another party to rule over us. For over 150 years, these two entrenched ideologies have degraded our economy with oppressive interventionism supported by a crushing national tax system. Low income people who continue to be enslaved with the ‘drug’ of perpetual state welfare. A federally mandated education system that has been unsuccessful in motivating and teaching our young the basic skills needed to prepare themselves for the future. A crumbling infrastructure of poorly maintained bridges and highways. A foreign policy that has failed miserably under the pretense of ‘democracy’ at the point of a gun, vis-à-vis Status of Force Agreements (SOFA).

It doesn’t matter who the candidate is, the two party crime syndicate bolstered by special interest group bureaucrats control government at the federal and state levels. The people grumble and complain to themselves or blog on the Internet, but as soon as government gives us a spoonful of “sugar” (i.e., tax rebate) our minds react as if we received a dose of Ritalin. The Media which traditionally was the people’s advocate, has been comprised through mergers and acquisitions and now serves its corporate masters.

We the people have all the power, yet we persist on electing representatives of the same two parties who continue to serve their own interests and not ours. When are we going to stand up and take control of our own country’s destiny?

Can anyone in their right mind deny we have been lied to by the leadership of this nation with the aide of a complicit media? I’m not just writing about the President and Vice President, but the entire Congress made up of Republicans and Democrats as well. This is not a government of the people, but a consortium of fascist elitists. Government carries on with ever increasing expansion in size and power at the financial expense of the people, who receive less and less. They create an atmosphere of fear about terrorism, but the nexus of terrorism is located in Washington, DC.

So what must we do for ourselves and our families to end this obvious tyranny of deception and manipulation? I’ll tell you what I will do. As a registered Independent for every election, I will vote for a candidate who is not a Democrat or Republican. I don’t care if the candidate is not well connected, doesn’t looks pretty or has two heads. It doesn’t matter to me. Anything is better than the two parties we currently have in power today.

Here are some other parties and their candidates:

Constitutional Party – Chuck Baldwin
Libertarian Party – Bob Barr
Independent Party – Ralph Nader, Alan Keyes
Green Party – Cynthia McKinney, Jesse Johnson, Kent Mesplay

Who are these candidates? WHO CARES!! They aren’t running as a democrat or republican and that’s what counts! Do some research on your own and find out which one is:

A – Not an insane fascist war profiteer (like Bush/Cheney).
B – Not a career politician who owes their soul to a Washington bureaucrat.
C – Doesn’t think government has the right to run your life and steal your freedoms.
D – What ever else is important to you.

How will the corporate fascist media respond? Let’s see.

1. “Oh, if we have a third party President, that will cause gridlock in Congress.”
No, what it will do is scare the panties off these career politicians when they realize the American people have the moxie to revolt against decades of corruption. These smug senators and representatives will be next to go to the unemployment line.

2. “These other party ideologies are too extreme for main stream America.” Too extreme, you say?

The Constitutional Party supports adherence to the U.S. Constitution; America’s living document bound to the people. What’s not to like about that?

The Libertarian Party favors smaller federal government involvement in your life. I guess if you’re a socialist and want a handout instead of a hand up, this party would not be your choice.

The Independent Party is just what it says, “independence” from the continuous democratic and republican party dogma of welfare and warfare.

The Green Party wants a healthier planet. Jeez, don’t we all?

3. “Voting for a third party will be a wasted vote.”
Wasted for whom, the deep-rooted two-party system that has repeatedly failed the country?

The bottom line is if you want to swallow the same political crap year after year, then go ahead, pull the lever for your “party” candidate.

But if you truly want to effect change, get some backbone; vote for anyone other than a Democrat or Republican candidate.

YES!

Did the BUMS pass FISA?!

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

yes, they passed

yes, they passed FISA....they gotta go!
http://www.dailypaul.com/...

freedom

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Good Idea

I've been doing that since 1992!

This is so true. I had to

This is so true. I had to write my Senator and Rep two times last week and I told them that they had not obviously READ the Constitution they had sworn to us to support. Therefore, they no longer represented ME, and their voting would come back to haunt them. I hope we and God, take their oaths seriously, because then they will not have peace in this life, nor the next (if there is one, and God truly does punish people, of which I have my doubts, but o well). When they all get the Petitions of Redress of Grievance in just a few days, they will know we are serious. I sure hope Bob is going to give this to the media in a very dramatic fashion. I also hope that EVERYONE has checked to see if their state needs a server to make certain ALL of the incumbents get this, which ND and DC were not, as of yesterday, nor quite a few in CA. This is a way to make them not so damned comfortable, if nothing else.

It was an American Bulldozer... supplied by the US govt.

I suggest we keep track of votes in congress and put up a Hot List of the Biggest BUMS to throw out... those that have voted for the Patriot Act, the new FISA bill, the Iraq War funding Bill, etc...

Wouldn't you like to know who the biggest BUM is just to make sure he/she doesn't make it back into office!!

Who is the WORST member of Congress?

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Operation Daily Paul"
on revolutionbroadcasting.com
or visit www.mikeandjake.com

We usually don't hear of a bill

till it time to vote on it. We are only told the main topic of the bill and not of all the added stuff that would want us to vote against it.

Our constitution is about 4 pages long for the basics of this whole republic, but our congress cant put a bill together that takes 100s or 1000s of pages.

Maybe we need to get possible bills on CFL website to study them out.
Maybe we need to get a law or amendment passed that limits the number of pages in bills, say like 10, also including page size,font size.

I wrote...

a scathing letter to my senator last night after reading about that girl that got run over by an Israeli bulldozer. She was standing in front of the bulldozer to try and stop them from demolishing a Palestinian home. They ran over her and killed her.

Anyway, I basically went off on him... on a number of issues... and told him that I would do everything I could to make sure he... and my other representatives... were not in office next term.

I'm all for firing all of them... with very few exceptions. I can count them on one hand. RP, Kucinich, McKinney, Gravel, and maybe one or two more.

Why is it your Senator's

Why is it your Senator's fault that a bulldozer in Israel drove over a girl? I thought we were trying to become non-interventionists. [Not even commenting on the effectiveness of such a letter.]

Because our tax dollars

Because our tax dollars funded that bulldozer. Nearly every candidate swears fealty to AIPAC. It is long past time we treated Israel like a normal country.

The Ironic Thing Is Both Obama And McAipac Both Have The.......

blessing of the most powerful lobby in Washington.

http://www.whodidit.org/c...

Paper Ballots,Hand Counted At The Precinct Or Bust

Keep maybe 2-6 of them that's about it!

Ron and Dennis and each of them choose 2 to keep.
The rest of them should be outed period.
We must abolish this unconstitutional growing leviathan.

I like it !!

If California can recall their Governor we can recall congress. Starting with that worthless waste of space Pelosi

IMPEACH PELOSI

Signed

She among others need to go!!!

I signed the petition!

Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" on revolutionbroadcasting.com
Mondays thru Thursdays Midnight EST
or visit www.mikeandjake.com