Boner is pulling another one.
We need a measure of PATRIOTISM of the people we elect.
I know what they are thinking and there are several sides to this coin.
There is personal greed accompanied by those that believe legislators can cause harm to the people over time as they whittle away at paradigm shifts that do not serve their political goals. ie: SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.
No. Not this time and any legislator voting for exemptions as a federal bill should be voted out of office. I don't care who they are. This is ridiculous.
There has to be a measure of legislators that stand with their constituents other than having disasters such as the report generated by Issa and Boner regarding Benghazi. The House Benghazi report puts the the average citizen point of view without the benefit of reading intelligence reports by the agencies into the report to sell politics.
Dangerous. So, to insure the electorate knows who the person they elect actually are, there needs to be a PATRIOTIC measure of their legislative activities. This is one of them.
There is the other side of sanity regarding this that states if a legislator is exempt from the impacts of any bill they are more likely to be less self serving. Hence, "The Patriot Index." It will help to stop this mess.
"The Patriot Index" = Did the legislator serve the best interests of their people without corruption while sharing their quality of life including the same standard for health care.
President Obama and his Cabinet took pay cuts along with "The Sequester" employees. Positive Number for The Patriot Index. Follow? They don't have to change their lives with their families, but, they have to demonstrate they walk in the very shoes of the people that elected them. "The Patriot Index."
By JOHN BRESNAHAN and JAKE SHERMAN
4/24/13 9:49 PM EDT
Congressional leaders in both parties (click here) are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.
The talks — which involve Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Obama administration and other top lawmakers — are extraordinarily sensitive, with both sides acutely aware of the potential for political fallout from giving carve-outs from the hugely controversial law to 535 lawmakers and thousands of their aides. Discussions have stretched out for months, sources said....
