Here's a Jefferson quote we should frame and send to every GOP Representative in the House.

[sinkingfeeling]

I HAVE THE CONSOLATION OF HAVING ADDED NOTHING TO MY
PRIVATE FORTUNE DURING MY PUBLIC SERVICE, AND OF
RETIRING WITH HANDS CLEAN AS THEY ARE EMPTY.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

[DrDan]

1. how about to every Representative in the House

[mimitabby]

2. yeah it couldn't hurt the democrats to read it either

[Mimosa]

3. Republicans would counter that Jefferson was a spendthrift who was about bankrupt towards the end.

He had to sell some slaves just to keep hanging on, if I recall correctly.

Republicans -and even some Democrats- have no respect for people who can't make money. I'd been around people like that when I lived in New Orleans.

[Sal Minella]

4. Well (snort), obviously Jefferson was NOT up to availing

himself of the wonderful economic opportunities his Heavenly Father provided for him.

Clearly, the man was not as intelligent as some people think, or he would have made something of himself.

:sarcasm:

[sabrina 1]

5. If Jefferson were running for office today, spouting all that

liberal 'free press' and 'common good' stuff, he wouldn't even make it into the primaries, and Republicans would be calling him a traitor.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. I much prefer this Jefferson quotation:

I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.

[Cherchez la Femme]

7. The poor guy was bankrupt

towards the end of his life, too.
I believe that's why Presidents are now accorded an automatic monthly 'retirement' check after they leave office.

As a fellow bibliophile I have to give him props. He could have made some serious money selling his vast library (over 50 years of collecting books) on the open market, but luckily for us he donated his books to the government
which started the Library of Congress.

Indeed, a gift that keeps on giving.

[badtoworse]

8. Thanks, I did not know that - nt