My only question to you, Mr. Bongino, is whether or not you will engage in "bi-partisan politics" or will you do what seems to be the norm these days and vote strictly on party lines?? Simple question, but one that most of us want an answer to. There are more things going on that need bi-partisan attention and I, for one, am sick and tired of the bantering and high-school antics in congress. OUR country needs to move forward and we really want politicians that hold OUR best interests at heart not just one party's plan to attack the other's.

Everyone keeps talking about how many people are getting government help, well maybe if good laws were made to make the dead beat parents pay what they owe for their children, then maybe the poor moms and kids can come off of the programs. The law helps the women get out of the abusive relationships and then drops them, leaving them to fend for themselves. I know for a fact that these dead beats know how to get around the system so as not to pay. What are your thoughts on this?

I would like all our politicians to have limited terms - no more than 2 terms. There should be no life-time career politicians.
They should not receive huge retirement benefits for "life," paid for by us.
They should be supplying their own medical and life insurance plans, the same as us.
They should be required to wait 2-5 years before working for a "special interest" company (those lobbying them), once out of politics.
Big corporations lobbying politicians should be outlawed, so they will act for the voters, not the big corporations
I would like to know your opinion on the above.
Please answer all our concerns, with another Patch article..

Fix the problems of fraud and corruption in the currernt programs like SS, welfare and Medicare. The IRS pays out billions, even to dead people at the tax payer expense instead of fixing the problem. Since Katrina, oil companies are making record profits and still raising prices. Why not go back to pre - Katrina era and pass a " reasonable profit clause " to stop this abuse of the system. Stop party line votes & work for the people. Stop taxing to cover up the mismanagement of the Goverments mistakes.

I would add one more to the above. Change the campaign contribution laws to read "Candidates for political office can only accept contributions from living American citizens living in the District they represent. Each individual contribution of any size to be reported on a public web site within one week." I would happily see corporations, PACs, unions, lobbyists, bundlers and the like out of the picture.

Be careful @OMG, one shouldn't move "Forward" if you are at the edge of an economic cliff as we are now.

Just as Obama spent a trillion dollars in the solar industry and they all failed to produce any results or went belly up. Obama doesn't care because it's NOT his money that he's playing with. Our tax dollars shouldn't be spent as an experiment or fund programs that the private sector has proven not to be cost effective in the long term.

I forgot about Obama's 510 million of tax payers money on bio fuels to Gevo Inc. Obama bought the fuel they produced at $59.00 a gallon. WOW, that wasn't in his convention speech either.

The Pentagon bought the fuel for $59 per gallon not the President.

Steve, come on, if you think the pentagon did it on their own, your crazy. Obama ordered them to buy it. Tax payers paid for another failed experiment.

Biofuels were a Bush program.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/26/140702387/air-force-and-navy-turn-to-bio-fuels

Gevo Inc. was Obama's baby. Not Bush's. You and Frank keep blaming Bush but you keep forgetting that the Democrats had control of congress and the policies that came from them is the problem now. Bush didn't pass any laws. All of Obama's waste came in his first two years in office when Democrats controlled congress. Democarts love to spend & waste OUR money.

How can it be Obama's baby when it's been around since 2005?

Here we go again. The $59.00 a gallon fuel from Gevo was a contract in 2010 under Obama's failed attempt to go green. We have all the gas, oil and coal we need to get away from foreign oil. Obama could care less how high gas prices go. We have a bunch of countries producing oil off of OUR coast and selling it back to us. The Democrats have fought year after year to keep it that way. WHY? The private sector hasn't proven that solar power is cost effective in the long run, yet Obama throws our money at it anyway. Even King Obama can't change the facts or the out come.

Just, Respect needs to be earned and with his lack of leadership, broken promises and lies, he hasn't earned it. Oil - if we start producing our oil instead of exploring and capping the wells, we could get away from OPEC and control our own prices.

That's a dumb idea. As it is now, we export more oil than we import.

I believe you are both wrong. We stock pile our oil and trade little. We buy oil mostly from Canada, South America and Saudi. Real issue with oil are the speculators who jack up the prices when someone scratches their butt in the middle east. Also we have not built a refinery in our country in 30+years. As far as Bongino's news flash, I hope he can produce. It will take a nation who is together to vote out the clowns we have in Congress, Senate and the White House and a major overhaul in the way we do business in DC. What are the chances of that happening?

slim to none. We should start here at home. Our elected officials here in Maryland are way out of touch with reality.