(FRESHMAN REPUBLICAN) Members Of Congress Speak Like High School Sophomores, Sunlight Foundation

[DainBramaged]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/members-of-congress-speak_n_1532666.html?ref=politics


Well, look who elected them?

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Most interesting.

[tabatha]

2. Agreed. So does pubescent Priebus.

[zbdent]

3. "look who elected them" ... yep, ...

the (former) kids who beat up the smart kids in school ...

[tabatha]

4. "But following 2005, something happened"

Between 1996 and 2005, Republicans overall spoke at consistently 2/10ths of a grade level higher than Democrats, except for 2001, when a rare moment of national unity also seems to have extended to speaking at the same grade level. But following 2005, something happened, and Congressional speech has been on the decline since. For Republicans as a whole, the decline was from an 11.6 grade level to a 10.3 grade level in 2011 (up slightly to 10.4 in 2012 so far). For Democrats, it was a decline from 11.4 to 10.6 in 2011 (also up slightly to 10.8 in 2012 so far.)

Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, or Bush? or all three happened to dumb down America.

[CRK7376]

5. NPR ran this story

this morning. Interesting point of view. I've Always want smarter politicians than me....but then we get GWBush, Palin, and my states on knucklehead...John Edwards....oh well. Dumb it down for the masses....

[DainBramaged]

6. It's why the pukes want to dumb America down and attack education

they're the anti-smart political party.

[loyalsister]

7. It's tricky

I think language\information needs to be accessible to everyone in order to attract as many voters as possible. It is elitist to only cater to voters who have a college education.
On the other hand, when it comes to violence oriented hate speech and sports analogies, I think people deserve more credit and we should talk to them about policy in civil terms as we speak to fellow adults.