Co-Sponsor Complaint Free Wednesday


Congress could be working on boosting job growth, figuring out where Arizona got 99 additional congressional districts, restoring the F-22 cuts, etc. but Rep. Emanuel Cleaver has a better idea.

He wants a “complaint free Wednesday.”

From: The Honorable Emanuel Cleaver
Bill: H.Con.Res. 155
Date: 11/17/2009

Dear Colleague:

Please join me in co-sponsorship of a resolution, H. Con. Res. 155, to designate the day prior to Thanksgiving as Complaint Free Wednesday.

From time to time, we all experience anxiety, frustration, stress, and regret. And often, we respond to these feelings with a criticism or a complaint. Regrettably, complaining keeps people stuck on current problems, inhibiting them from thinking constructively to find solutions. Research has also shown that complaining can be harmful to one’s emotional and physical health; relationships; and can limit professional career success.

In the spirit of hope, optimism, and postivity, and in honor of its efforts to encourage people to look forward, not backward, the group a Complaint Free World is to be recognized. A Complaint Free World’s goal, in fact, is to motivate 1% of the global population (about 60 million people) to become complaint free.

This timely and constructive (and revenue neutral) resolution would reaffirm the meaning of Thanksgiving by designating the Wednesday before as Complaint Free Wednesday. Surely Complaint Free Wednesday will be a meaningful and powerful reminder to prepare for a day of gratitude.

If you would like more information or would like to sign on as a co-sponsor, please contact Mary Petrovic of my staff. . . . I hope you have a pleasant and complaint-free day.

Warmest regards,

Emanuel Cleaver

Member of Congress


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Dear Representative Cleaver (D-MO)

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 6:47PM EST (link)

Shut up.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

Well put ;>) nt

voxoreason Wednesday, November 18th at 9:23AM EST (link)

That actually did make me laugh out loud.

Frozen_Man (Diary) Wednesday, November 18th at 11:38AM EST (link)

Well said.

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“This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.” C. S. Lewis

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” – Ronald Reagan

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” – C. S. Lewis

 
 

Hey Beaver Cleaver

makemyday (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 6:54PM EST (link)

As long as you guys are in Washington I have reason to complain. Just go away and see how fast I shut up!

When all else fails…….. Shoot!

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” –American author Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” –George Washington, letter to Philip Schuyler, 1777

 

I'll be doin' my complaining on a Tuesday anyway! NT

restofva (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 6:57PM EST (link)

I hope someone rolls this bill up

rec0n Tuesday, November 17th at 7:16PM EST (link)

and smacks him upside his head with it.

Idiot.

5 nt

muffin Tuesday, November 17th at 7:33PM EST (link)

Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer

 
 

How does that old joke go?

mustango (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 7:21PM EST (link)

“How’s work?”
“Can’t complain.”
“That good?”
“No, boss won’t let me.”

“I just miss — I miss being anonymous.” — Barack Obama

I fully sympathize, Mr. President. I miss you being anonymous too.

5 mustango nt

mom2oneson (Diary) Wednesday, November 18th at 2:24PM EST (link)
 

Link link link!

Alberta (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 7:37PM EST (link)

honestly, without a link it looks like a joke, only it isnt April 1st.

You know what, just so I sleep better at night, dont link it so I can think it is a joke. Can you imagine that…children like Emanuel Cleaver are the ones in charge?

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln

 

If want a complain free Wednesday, stop giving us things to complain about

Richard Mullins (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 7:49PM EST (link)

really, there is no end on what we complain about from our congressmen/congresswomen. Stop by leaving and make good reasons to complain. Of course, leave up to a Democrat to ask for a complaint-less day.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 

Cost of this legislation

Benjamin Hodge (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 7:54PM EST (link)

I’ll ask — not complain, but ask — what the cost of drafting, printing, and distributing a Congressional Resolution is.

 

Mark Levin said John Thune's vote today was 'shocking'

katesmith (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 8:40PM EST (link)

Levin said Thune was one of 10 Republicans to vote with Democrats on cloture for a very bad guy Hamilton for Court of Appeals. Levin said the Senate is the only thing we have to save us from the Court system today and for years to come. This complaint will still be in effect Wednesday.

I wonder if Levin is shocked with some of the other Rs voting with Ds for cloture

pilgrim (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 8:52PM EST (link)

Murkowski (R-AK)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Lugar (R-IN)
Collins (R-ME)
Snowe (R-ME)
Gregg (R-NH)
Thune (R-SD
Alexander (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Hatch (R-UT)

The last two on this list disappoints me a lot.


Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

 
 

I guess we should not pay him

GregInFla (Diary) Tuesday, November 17th at 9:18PM EST (link)

for Wednesday either, then. Can we do shout-outs on Wednesday instead of complaining?


– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.

 

This moron already has a street named after him here in KC

Andy W. Wednesday, November 18th at 1:20AM EST (link)

All he did was waste money as mayor for a few years.

Then his district sent him to DC where he could waste more.

His district will most likely keep him there indefinitely.

My only hope is that his successor, Kay Barnes NEVER makes it to the House. Since she runs in my district against Sam Graves, at least I can do my part to prevent it in the voting booth.

Keep up the good work Sam Graves (R, MO-6)

 

No Complaints? probably will be a law next!

astrolite Wednesday, November 18th at 8:06AM EST (link)

I tink I will have a real wild extravagant thanksgiving feast this year! It will probably be the last year anybody will have anything to be thankful for!

 

No Complaints? probably will be a law next!

astrolite Wednesday, November 18th at 8:06AM EST (link)

I tink I will have a real wild extravagant thanksgiving feast this year! It will probably be the last year anybody will have anything to be thankful for!

 

This guy must have smoked to much weed

janetbinnj Wednesday, November 18th at 8:20AM EST (link)

How absurd this joker is. I say get to work and earn that BS salary we pay you and there will be time over the holidays to sit with your flower power buds and smoke the dope and go on about the establishment.
No wonder our country is in the toilet with idiots like this running it.

I wondered that too

mom2oneson (Diary) Wednesday, November 18th at 2:23PM EST (link)

Like did he have a dental appointment or surgery the afternoon before and there is still some sedative in his system?

 
 

In the spirit of hope and optimism...

mschmitt (Diary) Wednesday, November 18th at 8:46AM EST (link)

… what will be the fine for violating this resolution?

usque ad finem

The more I think about this...

mschmitt (Diary) Wednesday, November 18th at 11:47AM EST (link)

… the more I have to wonder.

What exactly is the operating budget of the “Complaint Free World” group to be? How will it be funded? Will it be endowed with any authority to enforce this resolution?

Seriously, their purpose is to motivate 60 million people to be “complaint free”?

Sort of like……? Eh, never mind.

usque ad finem

 
 

Dumber and Dumbest

dclamage Wednesday, November 18th at 9:19AM EST (link)

This is the dumbest thing I’ve seen all day.

Day’s not over yet!

– Dan Clamage

 

this is unbelieveable....

outspoken Wednesday, November 18th at 2:05PM EST (link)

or are they (dems) just trying to distract everyone from the real ISSUES……Illegals, fake global panic & of course HEALTH CARE REFORM (better known as america’s downsizing effort – abortions and kill off the old!)

 

who needs the onion this is hysterical nt

mom2oneson (Diary) Wednesday, November 18th at 2:18PM EST (link)

He needs an Erma Bombeck book

mom2oneson (Diary) Wednesday, November 18th at 2:22PM EST (link)

I think only someone really stressed out and about to run away could come up with something like this. Maybe he needs something to make him laugh about all the “stuff” adults get to deal with. I kind of feel bad for him now that I think about it. It’s kind of scary he is making a decisions for our country though. :(

 

My complaint.

wayneepalmer Wednesday, November 18th at 5:01PM EST (link)

To The Honorable Emanuel Cleaver, my complaint:

You are still breathing.

True peace between two enemies has only ever been acheived when one side has utterly defeated the other…if you doubt this truth visit Nagasaki sometime.

 

I say we show Mr. Cleaver who is really in charge here,

jbopinionated Thursday, November 19th at 11:02AM EST (link)

and let’s bombard his office with complaints on that day. The fools plan to legislate even our personal behavior and our civic action. That’s a load of….well you all know what it smells like.