GOP senator amid looming shutdown: Country 'being run by idiots' (not who you think)

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GOP senator amid looming shutdown: Country 'being run by idiots'

By Brandon Carter - 01/19/18 08:26 PM EST

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) blasted Congress on Friday as a government funding deadline approached, slamming the government as being “run by idiots.”

"Our country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots," Kennedy told reporters hours before the government was set to enter a shutdown.

Another of Kennedy’s colleagues, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), made similar remarks on the Senate floor, saying that the Senate has “some really stupid people.”

"This is the greatest country in the world, but we do have some really stupid people representing it from time to time, and with that, I probably have gone too far saying that, but it's true and it's disappointing to me," Hatch said.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/369866-gop-senator-our-country-was-founded-by-geniuses-but-its-being-run-by-idiots

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One of the key considerations of our Founders was representative districts. The idea being that competing interest would tend to temper each other at a certain level.

of interest: http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm

In the first place, it is to be remarked that, however small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of a multitude. Hence, the number of representatives in the two cases not being in proportion to that of the two constituents, and being proportionally greater in the small republic, it follows that, if the proportion of fit characters be not less in the large than in the small republic, the former will present a greater option, and consequently a greater probability of a fit choice.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

It must be confessed that in this, as in most other cases, there is a mean, on both sides of which inconveniences will be found to lie. By enlarging too much the number of electors, you render the representatives too little acquainted with all their local circumstances and lesser interests; as by reducing it too much, you render him unduly attached to these, and too little fit to comprehend and pursue great and national objects. The federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular to the State legislatures.

Not a bad premise, not at all.

However 200 plus years of corruption. Democrats... Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed culminating in obama/Hillary/Scumer/Peloser of today.

Representative districts drawn with voters who vote 95% democrat. Districts which have 50% illegals who count as population for the purpose of drawing district lines. That gives the Cabal which is warned against ... its power.

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I prefer Hatch's comment as he referred to the people representing the country whereas Kennedy referred to the people running the country.

Government people should not be running the country but just the government.

Is that picayune? Maybe, or maybe Kennedy reveals a too-common attitude.