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- One congressman says they are
- Are WA delegates intimidated?
- SUNNYSIDE (Friday, 11-12-99)---More than one source has said that congressmen change from Dr. Jekyl to Mr. Wimp once they actually sit down in their little cubicles in Washington, D.C.
- The question most appropriate for Washingtonians is whether this is true for our own congressional delegates. Have Washington delegates been intimidated by the beltway crowd?
- Are new congressmen seduced in "training sessions for freshmen", or by hiring staffers who are old Washington D.C. residents? Is their mail ever screened by those who have their own agendas?
- According to congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), an unabashed libertarian, Congressmen are under all sorts of pressure to support the powers that be in that writhing mass of snakes known as the federal government.
- Says Paul, "Congressmen are supposed to support the government, I was told. Oh, it's okay to criticize around the edges, but there are certain subjects a member of the House of Representatives is not supposed to bring up."
- Yet congressmen are the people's voice in government. If this part of the system is threatened, or moribund, our country is in serious danger.
- If our own Washington congressmen are somehow intimidated from bringing up "unpleasantness" as they sit in D.C., we need to get things straightened out, pronto.
- We need to support our delegates who still believe in the Constitution. We need to raise a voice so intensely powerful it will send the Big-Government crowd--bureaucrats, media, the UN, interest groups-- scurrying to clean up the mess they make in their office chairs.
- --Huda Thunket (LA)