Thomas Jefferson Quotes
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Jefferson, Thomas. The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790. Edited by Paul Leicester Ford, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914, p. 116.
impeachment of President Andrew Johnson Garfield was then a Congressman
This small booklet was the first describing parliamentary procedures and it rapidly sold 500,000 copies. It has become the bases for legislatures, committees, boards ever since. The Congress and most of the State and local legislatures all are based on it.
In 2012, the Republican party had shifted to the right and was split between two factions. None of the 4 leading candidates had the support of a majority of the activist Republicans who vote in Primary elections. The then started to vie with each other for the most conservative elements of the party and did so by attacking the other candidates, making moral pronouncements and attacking President Obama. None of them offered any positive programs or solutions to the problems they claimed existed, and the attacks on the others were always that they were “really not conservative” and “could not get elected.” The result was that all the candidates negatives rose.
Earlich won one term and then was trounced soundly in his attempt for a 2nd term. The dirty tricks like planting a false story that the Democratic opponent was having an adulterous affair did not work as well in a bid for the second term as the voters were not happy with Earlich’s performance at all.
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
