Folks don't want oil derricks in on their front lawns, town squares, or Central Park. Hence, laws were passed ages ago regulating where mining and drilling operations may take place, to protect towns, farmlands, waterways, and public lands for designated purposes like ANWR, all necessary to American quality of life.

The site is called "Good Bye Incumbents" and it is a very well laid out and easy site to read and navigate. My only criticism is they don't permit comments to their column articles. It is however a great information site with lots of photos for those who need them to keep the visual interest and attention span going. Very well done. Congratulations to Jack Walsh, the site designer. And welcome Jack to the anti-incumbent movement.

UPDATE: Jack Walsh has implemented comments to his articles on his site. Good move. Check it out.

GOP Out of power:

The easiest way to evidence this claim is to simply reference this week's news headlines and accompanying articles.

• GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more seats.
• GOP can't rely on money advantage now.
• GOP scrambles after Mississippi loss.
• After String of Losses, Republicans Face Crisis
• Republicans look for new message, no sugarcoating after latest defeat.

Yet, universal suffrage is what we have delivered unto ourselves in the name of Women's rights, African American rights, Civil Rights, and Ignorant and Uneducated Rights. America decided that even the ignorant and uneducated are entitled to a voice in electing not just their district representatives of the U.S. House of Representatives as originally intended, but the Senate and the President as well.

I am proposing that we create a popular, bloodless, political revolution in our country.

I believe that it is very necessary, very possible, and very doable.

The object of this revolution is the destruction of the professional political class which currently dominates and corrupts the US Congress.

I am convinced, as are many, many voters, that the bulk of our country's political problems arises out of this 'permanent' Congressional political class, and their devotion to party power and to the financial special interests keeping them in power.

Josh White of the Wash. Post informs us:

Weeks went researching, then an injury, and more weeks of research and finally landing the right software, days went by configuring it, working out details with our Server Host, and finally, getting the email out. Regretfully, the email went out after the Texas Primary instead of before, when interest would have been at its height. We had a few very positive responses, and will likely see more in the coming days.

But, we will press on. The Board will meet shortly to authorize the purchase of another list for another targeted audience. This time, having all the infrastructure in place, we can be assured of a timely delivery in a state with its primary or caucus coming up. The email we are sending raises awareness of the need to vote anti-incumbent where possible, and of our organization and its purpose and mission. You can view the email being sent by clicking here.

Your thoughts, recommendations, and suggestions made in the comments here will be read and considered and very much appreciated.

House has opened wide loopholes in ethics rules.

As the U.S. House of Representatives continues its debate on how to proceed on ethics reform, an article in today's edition of The Hill is instructive. Even though, the Senate is far from doing all the work on policing its members that needs to be done, that body is viewed as more aggressive on ethics issues. Two former House members (Cunningham and Ney) are incarcerated. Two more members (Jefferson and Renzi) are currently under indictment.

Hi guys and gals, from tenurecorrupts.com

Now that the latest political buzzword is 'CHANGE', I guess I'm gonna have to get on the bandwagon...

I say the CHANGE that is needed in our country is to end the permanent status quo in Congress.

How many of you realize that the average reelection rate in the House of Representatives is over 98% ? And in the Senate it is over 92% ?

Do you really, really think that Congress does such a good job that it deserves to be reelected over and over again, ad infinitum ? Something is wrong !

Doesn't this sound like Congress has a real need for CHANGE ?

Since they are not likely to ever let us term limit them, we have to do it ourselves. And it is easy to do. We simply have to NEVER REELECT THEM !

During this Presidential Election, vote for whoever you want for president. But when it comes to your members of Congress in either House, or either party, vote only for challengers, never for incumbents.

If we succeed in knocking down their reelection rates to the low 70 or 80 percentile rates, they will get the message and let us have a constitutional amendment for term limits for Congress.

Now THAT would be REAL CHANGE !!!

--Nelson Walker, TenureCorrupts.Com

On the one hand, this is great news. We have succeeded in growing beyond our resources. On the other hand, the bad news is we cannot grow further nor efficiently without help from VOID supporters. Volunteers who can email others, who can research the web and copy and paste some challenger information, who can reply to some newly interested persons, who can blog on other sites about VOID, are all needed if VOID is to continue to grow and change the way Congress abuses us and our tax dollars.

If you can help with a few hours per week or month, please CLICK HERE to provide us with information so we can contact you. And thank you for your continued commitment and support.

However, their comments don't reflect a genuine understanding of the anti-incumbent movement; obvious by their numerous references to an anti-incumbent mood. Mood and movement are two entirely different things. VOID is the only legitimate anti-incumbent movement, and all others miss the mark entirely as demonstrated in following paragraphs and quotes.