Tea Party Senator Wonders Why We Have A Senate
Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse thinks we’d be fine with just a House of Representatives.
Click here for reuse options!Sasse (R-NE) said he’s been quietly watching his colleagues work during his first year as a senator, and nearly one year after his election — he wonders whether the U.S. Senate should even exist.
The Tea Party lawmaker said, during his first speech on the Senate floor, that he spends most of his weekends back home in Nebraska, where he has discovered “the people despise us all.”
“Why is this?” Sasse said Tuesday, 364 days after his election. “Because we’re not doing the job we were sent here to do. The Senate isn’t tackling the great national problems that worry those we work for.”
He slammed his fellow Republican “grandstanders” for using their elected office to promote outside business interests, and he attacked Democrats for doing “this body harm through nuclear tactics.”
“I therefore propose a thought experiment: If the Senate isn’t going to be the most important venue for addressing our biggest national problems, where is that venue?” Sasse wondered aloud. “Where should the people look for the long-term national prioritization? Or, to ask it of ourselves, would anything be lost if the Senate didn’t exist?”
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30 responses to Tea Party Senator Wonders Why We Have A Senate
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tracey marie November 4th, 2015 at 12:15
Not one damn republicans understands how government works or why it is set up this way.
Larry Schmitt November 4th, 2015 at 12:16
Based on what they accomplish, a lot of Americans probably feel we can get along without both houses. And a lot of people outside of Nebraska despise you all too.
MyDogsAreSmarterThanYou November 4th, 2015 at 12:22
Seriously?
Linda McLaren November 5th, 2015 at 07:25
MarcoZandrini November 4th, 2015 at 13:15
Leave!
Warman1138 November 4th, 2015 at 13:23
WTH is he doing back home instead of in the senate doing his job and complaining the senate isn’t doing it’s job? In his photo he looks about as bright as a 5 watt bulb and that’s a compliment. Seems his only political virtue is to slam democrats with useless innuendo and bitch about non-tea party compadres. Freaking baggers, what group of brain damaged morons in Nebraska elected this fine example of incompetence?…….Idiots!
rg9rts November 4th, 2015 at 13:40
What an ignoramus….that goes back to 7th grade
allison1050 November 4th, 2015 at 13:57
Maybe I missed it but when is he going to resign?
disqus_Va4LwroE3I November 4th, 2015 at 14:35
Sounds like you missed something in Civics class… he is a member of the House of Representatives (State representation based on population) and he is suggesting that the Senate (State representation even with each state having 2 members) not exist. Two different chambers. Both are referred to as Congress though.
lynchie November 4th, 2015 at 18:13
He is a U. S. senator not a state congressman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Sasse
allison1050 November 4th, 2015 at 18:21
He’s busy teaching me about civics. ;-)
allison1050 November 4th, 2015 at 18:14
I truly don’t mean to be argumentative but here I go any effin way pumpkin. Go back, but this time read the entire article #1 and #2 yes he’s a bagger but only under the guise of the letter R since they don’t have a party of their own. #3 this bagger is actually a member of the US Senate love. #4 this dumbass US Senator is suggesting in what happens to be his 1st speech on the US Senate floor (by the way just for your edification they address the President of the US) that his own job serves no purpose and every other US Sentor’s job serves no purpose…it obviously went right over not just his dumbassed head but yours also.
You my dear, either played your way through high school civics or more to the point, you didn’t even take it in high school. Unless and until you actually catch up on researching the subject of what the US Senate is supposed to do while in session don’t even bother to respond okay? I’ll just end by saying that you and this particular twit of a US Senator are proof positive of what is causing the disintegration of American politics and our society as a whole.
Hirightnow November 4th, 2015 at 18:21
You stomped so hard the rest of us got some on us!
whatthe46 November 4th, 2015 at 19:18
laughing.
Red Mann November 4th, 2015 at 20:28
Eww! Troll guts, I would have said troll brains, but there’s not enough to spatter about.
allison1050 November 5th, 2015 at 05:03
He’s gone.
maggie November 4th, 2015 at 14:30
exactly…resign away Sasse….;)
disqus_Va4LwroE3I November 4th, 2015 at 14:38
I’m a little disappointed in my lib peeps. The comments below illustrate that some of you don’t know the difference between the House and the Senate. C’mon now, let’s leave the dumbness to the tea-pubs.
Gina Bousquet November 4th, 2015 at 18:52
You must have comprehension problems. He is a lawmaker in his first speech on the Senate floor.
Ragga muffin November 4th, 2015 at 17:02
Hummm so why did he ran for the senate? He can retire and move back to NE
Ragga muffin November 4th, 2015 at 17:03
He is just like Marco Rubio in Florida. How can you ran for office and then don’t show up but collect $174000 a year for not showing up
Gina Bousquet November 4th, 2015 at 18:02
The batshit proposes to extinguish Democratic Institutions!
lynchie November 4th, 2015 at 18:08
Another tea bag home school nut. He has presented numerous anti abortion bills, but has basically done nothing in Congress like all in congress a grifter.
Hirightnow November 4th, 2015 at 18:18
Better question; why are you a senator if you have no faith in the institution?
amersham46 November 4th, 2015 at 18:31
Just think about it , without a senate Nebraska is nothing in national politics , just as he is nothing in the Senate
Chris November 4th, 2015 at 18:32
Resign.
And take your fellow yutzes with you. THEN the Senate can get to work, addressing the country’s many needs.
Dirk Prophet November 4th, 2015 at 22:05
Er…because it’s in the constitution.
KillAllTheRednecks . November 5th, 2015 at 00:03
And Nebraskans wonder why ConAgra is pulling up stakes and moving it’s Headquarters to Chicago.
granpa.usthai November 5th, 2015 at 00:06
somebody has to be in the Senate to sign open letters to foreign countries like Iran in order to make POTUS Obama a one term POTUS with a failed 2nd term.
liberalMD November 7th, 2015 at 07:09
Who would name all of the post offices if the Senate didn’t exist?