Can't wait for the president to be giving an address to the nation and he stops to see Biden texting during it, and reach out to him saying "Would you care to read the message out loud?"
Hmm. I wonder why our economy has been in trouble for some time, and China basically owns us at this point? Maybe it's because our elected officials are goofing off during budget hearings when they should be working for us? We certainly pay them enough. Even if he's not capable of bringing any ideas to the table, he should at least pay attention and let his wheels spin.
This is why we have so many problems in our country. The representatives the people elect to office are not fit for duty. And it happens at all levels of government.
This is old news but I will say its an example how how terrible things are. None of them care, democrats or republicans. They guy should have been punished but of course the Speaker of the House is all about letting people slide, even if they are caught with tax evasion. Are Congress so corrupt...
@Xcite79:
Have you watched some of the speeches people give at these kinds of things? They're lucky the entire room wasn't fast asleep.
Even if someone is talking about "important things," they could be spouting total nonsense, or repeating everything the person before them just said, etc.
And there are WAY more distracting things than playing a little solitaire, which doesn't require much thought or concentration.
I fucking hate politicians. Left or Right doesn't matter, they're all (or 99% of them) lying sacks of shit. Responsibility this, moral imperative that, American worker this, blah blah blah. Shut the fuck up, stop wasting my money, and be a public servant, not a recipient of public service. Ugh.
Curse that man for playing the speaches of nuts who are allowed to work in the white house with zero oversight!
Curse him for running stories about Acorn employees agreeing to set up child sex-slave shops using tax dollars (multiple times)!
I supposed he should have looked the other way? The fact that he's associated with that story is a damned shame. The only reason he's linked to it is because most of the rest of the world didn't bother to cover it, for some insane reason.
Say what you will, a cancer of an organization will NOT be comprimsing the census. Those kids did the leg work, Beck screamed it from the rooftops. Another oppertunity for MAJOR corruption to take place in the federal government was stopped. Hopefully, Acorn won't get $8.5B of taxpayer money anymore either.
@GorbyGipper: OH PLEASE
Glenn Beck is not a good man. The only reason he looked into Acorn was because it was connected with Obama and they wanted dirt. He never would've looked even close had Acorn been associated with John McCain.
How about him going from saying that america had terrible healthcare while having to go through it while working at another network, but as soon as he started at Fox, in just mere month, he started spouting that america has the best healthcare in the world?
Or calling Obama a racist?
The man has no journalistic integrity, how on earth can you take him seriously?
"You see, the budget constitutes yaddayaddayadda..."
"THE SNIPER IS A SPY! STOP HEALING THE FUCKING SPY!"
*two weeks later*
"It was certainly bad judgement for me to not spycheck, even for just a few minutes, during the final round of Capture/Defend. I am embarrassed, and I apologize to each and every Heavy who got backstabbed across the map."
If I can't take my DS and play The World Ends With You to my job (which is stocking produce at a grocery store) those people should be ousted for doing this (playing solitaire while in a seat of political power. I would put that a _touch_ higher in the totem pole of importancy than my job.)
DO politicians actually DO ANYTHING other than they to get reelected? If by the small chance that they do something, then they would be doing their jobs (barely).
This guy isn't going his job, because all of his job is is to get more money, and get reelected to get more money. Nowhere does it say you can't be doing something other than your job there because most of them barely even have one, and the ones that do aren't the incumbents (sadly).
@n00b_pwner: No! I really don't love it! These people, in their apathy towards their job, are letting this country rot from the inside out! Why are we putting these people into these seats? And where are the great minds of this country that should have those seats, the people mentally capable to see the power their position entails, the people who realize it's not a game to run a country?!
@vid3oman64: It's because most voters are uninformed retards, who just vote party lines. They know nothing about the candidates. I mean, if you want a certain party, I understand, but you don't have to vote for the biggest dumbass the party can offer....
@n00b_pwner:
The job is to place a vote, or to convince others to vote a certain way. If the guy already had his mind made up, what is listening to the opposition prattle on going to do for him?
@Kris: What is it going to do? INFORM him. You'd have to be pretty arrogant to think that your first decision is absolutely right. At least LISTEN to opposition. You could learn something.
It really shows how lame the government actually is. I don't care how boring it seems, you are an elected official for the national legislative organ. You have no excuse for not paying 100% attention.
Did anybody else catch Biden doing what looked like texting during the Obama joint meeting speech?
I play solitaire in class sometimes and I wouldn't say it affects my ability to pay attention. Its a nice game because its easy to look away from when you actually do have to do something. I can't say i really blame the guy and I doubt his full attention span was taken away by the game.
@Korvis: He's a politician. He is supposed to not do any human activities otherwise he would be corrupt.
If he actually acted like a human, like this guy playing on his cellphone here, then it would be controversy. There is no such thing as a human politic. They're all robots in this sense that they cannot do what people normally would do.
@Korvis: Right, but class is something YOU pay for. WE (taxpayers) pay him for this. That's the issue. If I played games at my job, my ass would get fired. Him? I doubt it.
@xMindPrintsx: You could be like Duvall in California campaign for "family values" but be caught on mic boasting about multiple S&M affairs one with a lobbyist to your department. Sex and corruption in one neatly tied rubber and leather package!
Perhaps when he heard he was going to be made vice-chair he misunderstood it?
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Politicians seem surprisingly bored as of late, which probably means there aren't that many issues left on the planet, which means the system is working. Yay!
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This is why we have so many problems in our country. The representatives the people elect to office are not fit for duty. And it happens at all levels of government.
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Have you watched some of the speeches people give at these kinds of things? They're lucky the entire room wasn't fast asleep.
Even if someone is talking about "important things," they could be spouting total nonsense, or repeating everything the person before them just said, etc.
And there are WAY more distracting things than playing a little solitaire, which doesn't require much thought or concentration.
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Sorry, these things really get me going.
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At least it beats getting caught with porn while a session is going on.
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Any person with a sane opinion.
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Curse that man for playing the speaches of nuts who are allowed to work in the white house with zero oversight!
Curse him for running stories about Acorn employees agreeing to set up child sex-slave shops using tax dollars (multiple times)!
I supposed he should have looked the other way? The fact that he's associated with that story is a damned shame. The only reason he's linked to it is because most of the rest of the world didn't bother to cover it, for some insane reason.
Say what you will, a cancer of an organization will NOT be comprimsing the census. Those kids did the leg work, Beck screamed it from the rooftops. Another oppertunity for MAJOR corruption to take place in the federal government was stopped. Hopefully, Acorn won't get $8.5B of taxpayer money anymore either.
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Glenn Beck is not a good man. The only reason he looked into Acorn was because it was connected with Obama and they wanted dirt. He never would've looked even close had Acorn been associated with John McCain.
How about him going from saying that america had terrible healthcare while having to go through it while working at another network, but as soon as he started at Fox, in just mere month, he started spouting that america has the best healthcare in the world?
Or calling Obama a racist?
The man has no journalistic integrity, how on earth can you take him seriously?
09/13/09
He is a disgrace to journalism and the American people.
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"You see, the budget constitutes yaddayaddayadda..."
"THE SNIPER IS A SPY! STOP HEALING THE FUCKING SPY!"
*two weeks later*
"It was certainly bad judgement for me to not spycheck, even for just a few minutes, during the final round of Capture/Defend. I am embarrassed, and I apologize to each and every Heavy who got backstabbed across the map."
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DO politicians actually DO ANYTHING other than they to get reelected? If by the small chance that they do something, then they would be doing their jobs (barely).
This guy isn't going his job, because all of his job is is to get more money, and get reelected to get more money. Nowhere does it say you can't be doing something other than your job there because most of them barely even have one, and the ones that do aren't the incumbents (sadly).
Gotta love politics!
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It's pathetic and worrisome.
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The job is to place a vote, or to convince others to vote a certain way. If the guy already had his mind made up, what is listening to the opposition prattle on going to do for him?
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Did anybody else catch Biden doing what looked like texting during the Obama joint meeting speech?
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Which organ should it be? Liver? Brain?
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I lol'd!
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If he actually acted like a human, like this guy playing on his cellphone here, then it would be controversy. There is no such thing as a human politic. They're all robots in this sense that they cannot do what people normally would do.
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Why can't he just do cocaine or overnight it to South America for some poon like a normal politician.
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Oooooh, solitare! REAL politicians go to gloryholes, hit on young males, have sex with South American woman, and smoke crack.
This chump has SO much to learn!
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Perhaps when he heard he was going to be made vice-chair he misunderstood it?
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This is win.