Congress Funds Study on How To Avoid Constituents, Stay in Office

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Congress Funds Study on How To Avoid Constituents, Stay in Office

Posted: 11/3/2009 9:02:37 AM EDT

They love us.

This Friday, the tax payer
funded Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) is hosting a briefing
for Members of Congress and their staff on their new study: Online Town Hall Meetings: Exploring Democracy in the 21st Century.
The CMF study consisted of 21 townhall meetings where Members of
Congress and CMF provided a moderator: "spoke via voice over IP, and
constituents asked questions and made comments by typing them. Only
off-topic, redundant, unintelligible, or offensive questions were
screened, and only questions asked by people who had not yet asked a
question were prioritized."

CMF does not say what
qualifies as offensive, but if this summer is any indication that
definition would include anything that the Congressman did not want to
talk about. In other words, this report urges Congressmen not to
actually interact with their constituents, but to avoid them altogether
by holding safe townhalls they can completely control. And what did CMF
find where the results of these Potemkin townhalls?

The online town halls
increased constituents’ approval of the Member. Every Member involved
experienced an increase in approval by the constituents who
participated. The average net approval rating (approve minus
disapprove) jumped from +29 before the session to +47 after. There were
also similar increases in trust and perceptions of personal qualities –
such as whether they were compassionate, hardworking, accessible, etc.
– of the Member.

The lesson: avoid your
constituents’ inconvenient questions and your approval ratings will
rise. And this is a taxpayer funded study. Here is the grant from the National Science Foundation.

Congress is actually
using your tax dollars to pay social scientists to find ways they can
avoid actually talking to their constituents while improving their
chances of reelection.
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/28/congress-funds-study-on-how-to-avoid-constituents-and-stay-in-office/#at

Posted: 11/3/2009 9:03:55 AM EDT

[#1]

Nothing surprise me anymore

Posted: 11/3/2009 9:11:43 AM EDT

[#2]

Fucking TERM LIMITS!

Posted: 11/3/2009 9:16:23 AM EDT

[#3]

I thought for sure when I read the title this was the Onion.

Posted: 11/3/2009 9:25:05 AM EDT

[#4]

Thus they travel the road of not actually representing thier constituents, openly.

1776 pt II may be coming afterall.

Posted: 11/3/2009 11:12:03 AM EDT

[#5]

DDOS!

Posted: 11/3/2009 11:14:44 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

I thought for sure when I read the title this was the Onion.

Me, too.

I swear, every day I see one more thing that sickens me (legit things).

This is todays.

Posted: 11/3/2009 11:14:55 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Fucking TERM LIMITS!

Posted: 11/3/2009 11:19:14 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
I thought for sure when I read the title this was the Onion.

So did I. Sad, but not surprising, that the Congresscrittes only think of themselves

Posted: 11/3/2009 11:20:04 AM EDT

[#9]

If I said what I am thinking right now I would be in trouble. Bag of Dicks, that is all I am saying.

Posted: 11/3/2009 11:23:01 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Fucking TERM LIMITS!

There is, every 4 years. Problem is, people don't give a fuck.

Posted: 11/3/2009 11:50:40 AM EDT

[#11]

tar and feathers...

Posted: 11/3/2009 11:51:14 AM EDT

[#12]

"The voter fraud will be up, so will the anger."

John Wall Mustache, leaning against a long chair.

Posted: 11/3/2009 11:54:06 AM EDT

[#13]

Dirty proles!

Posted: 11/3/2009 12:03:20 PM EDT

[#14]

I just sent this to everyone that I know. Also sent it to both of my senators and my representative and asked for their immediate responses.

Just utter bullshit

Posted: 11/3/2009 12:04:41 PM EDT

[#15]

Ask anything you like. Just be sure not to ask anything that would portray us in a negative light...

Posted: 11/3/2009 12:14:21 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Ask anything you like. Just be sure not to ask anything that would portray us in a negative light...
http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Galleries/Shows/S_Z/Va_Vh/V/crops/V16.jpg
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((sighs))

I need more tinfoil

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Congress Funds Study on How To Avoid Constituents, Stay in Office

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