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The U.S. Senate this week announced it’s getting rid of the dress code for its members.
QUESTION: Do you think all politicians, including the Senate, should have a dress code?
Talk about it….
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Dose that mean they get to wear shorts?
Yep! AND HOODIES! I’m not kidding.
Or bikinis. Dress up like Darth Vader, maybe wear the most appropriate dress of all. A Bozo the Clown costume.
Never have been a fan of dress codes. One can tell a lot about someone by the way they dress.
I think it shows respect to dress in a professional manner.
bu…t they are not professional, so let them show their true colors of being uncaring slobs
What a joke. Pennsylvania must be so proud of Fetterman. My party right or wrong the democrat motto.
That’s why Trump was found :not guilty” twice in the Senate.
Uhhh, the democrats all voted guilty in both trials, genius. The ONLY defectors from party line votes were republicans. Don’t let any facts get in your way.
From what I’ve seen lately, I think they should all be dressed in Clown attire.
The Fetterman Rule
Yes, semi-formal attire
Why not? Politicians are always telling the rest of us what we should or should not do, depending on the flavor of the politician. Why not mandate a dress code for all political levels and genders or whatever.
They should have costumes like every other clown at the circus.
Yes, …Dress for the Job.
Fetterman is a bum and unfit to serve.
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If a person cannot even comply with a dress code, how professional can they be fulfilling their position?
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Democrats have such LOW STANDARDS.
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Did you see what he did at Beetlejuice last week?
I think schumer was too afraid to require fetterman dress at least semi-professionally; instead, the clown gets to wear his clown suit. I am not one for dressing up, but he is a United States Senator for crying out loud. Have some respect for the position, the tradition, the importance of the Office (even if it has been sullied by many current members of that body). But I do suspect 5’7″ 160 pound 72 year old schumer was too afraid, literally afraid of the mentally unstable 6’8″, 375+ pound, 53 year old fetterman.
We have clowns on the right, clowns on the left…. do they have a dress code in a sanitarum? I think they should all wear sterile hospital clothing.
If the democrat eepresentatives want to be slobs let them be. Let them come in sweatpants and hoodies and Crocs for shoes. Actually most liberals really are kind of unkempt. I guess the hangover from the hippie days. But I advise the Republicans to still dress neatly.
Please Conservatives do not lower yourselves to be slobs like Liberals. Democrats Hate this Country. -Mark Levin
My book will be here tomorrow.
… I can see it coming… sloppy flip flops, mumu’s, and sweatpants, women’s hair in a bandana and guys with baseball caps turned backward wearing Croc’s and shorts….
Yes, there should absolutely be a dress code of some sort, even if it’s business casual.
Wow just wow.
Not necessarily a dress code, nobody wants to be told how to dress, but they should have the decency and respect to dress accordingly. One senator said she was going to show up in a bikini. That could be good or bad. A young, shapely woman in a bikini would be sexy, but some men might be distracted by her. On the other hand, I could not envision Senator Feinstein in a bikini.
John Fetterman is a slob, and a liar. Before he was elected, he said he would follow the dress code. But the GOP shouldn’t be talking so much about it and making it such a big deal. That’s exactly the response the Dems expect from the GOP, and they are having a field day with it.
Fetterman was the understudy for John Matuszak (Sloth) in the Goonies.
I think they should dress their colors, like street gangs. Blue tops and Red tops, show how much they hate each other and don’t give a rat about the people they are suppose to serve.
No, politicians do not need a dress code. They are adults. Let them wear whatever they want. It does not affect their ability to do their jobs. In fact, I think the last few years have taught us that wearing a suit does not guarantee that a politician has any respect for the institution in which they serve or its traditions, any sense of decorum, or any respect for the Constitution.
Unbelievable! There is an image (at least) that should be upheld in both the House and Senate.
The way you dress is a sign of respect for both yourself and those around you. Like it or not you will be judged by the way you dress.
It’s obviously less important than all the many ways Congress fails to do its job. But it is a nice symbolic example of how our society treats it’s institutions: they exist to allow individuals (some of them) to express themselves in their identity (if it’s a favored type). Whereas a same understanding of important institutions is that they shape the people within them. You grow into the role and that makes you more competent, more responsible, more public-minded, etc. etc.
I think this is why sports and the armed forces have maintained the respect of the public for longer (though as we’ve seen, that is in question now as well). It is more obviously true that sports players are being tried in the fire of elite competition, and that servicemen are being tried in the fire of military discipline. That the institution shapes the individual and makes him or her better in some way – better and more capable of achieving something largwr tham themselves.
Dress codes are meant to symbolize that. It’s a sign of a sick society when that is no longer obvious.
They act like slobs, might as well dress the part.
One would think they would have the common decency to at least look like they gave a $hit….
But this removes all doubt. They don’t respect the office, then they don’t deserve respect.
Period.
Next headline : Confused about new dress code, Senator Fetterman shows up wearing a mini skirt
Isn’t it about time somone here questions the tan suit Obama rore once?
The GOP pearl clutching over the Obama tan suit was hilarious.
I’m not sure that a suit will make someone be more “professional”. That’s all in the head. In the tech sector we dressed casual and everyone felt relaxed and got stuff done. Save the suit for a formal occasion. How many times have you been robbed by those wearing suits?
They can wear powdered wigs, ruffled shirts, pantaloons and buckled shoes for all I care, if they would just get something actually done – do their jobs.
The funny part about this is that they still have a dress code for people appearing before them. What a joke.
Does this mean Nancy Pelosi will show up in a tube dress???
With no dress code, there will be no need for a clothing allowance any longer.
But that allowance won’t go away, it may be increased.
Great, get rid of the dress code. However…………..Dressing well in classic, (not flashy) attire provides a psychological advantage when presenting or negotiating. A perceived advantage, even from within may still be an advantage.
When someone wanders in dressed like Fetterman, the perception among competitors is this guy must be really struggling. That’s a disadvantage in a presentation or negotiation.
Perception is reality.
Disregard V8 dr…smart phone error
Men should be required to wear suits like Jerry Nadler, with the suit pants pulled up to their armpits….One of Jerry’s best……https://youtu.be/9Ik531Q0AwE?si=KJ2wwsRf3t6GDonH
Huh, try as I might, I don’t care one way or the other. I mean if it was left to me they have to wear togas like the Roman Senate. But just for the humiliation.
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If Democrats didn’t have ultra low standards, they would have any.
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They’re doing everything to reduce our great nation towards being a Third World country.
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I think it would be nice if they at least would dress in business casual. Dress codes are getting more and more relaxed all over. When I started at Macy’s in Palo Alto we had to black or dark colors, we could wear a colorful scarf (thus I have about 50) and a colorful blouse or top under a dark colored top (brown, navy, charcoal grey etc) we could wear something with a pattern as long as it was mostly dark colors. Now we don’t have any dress code what so ever, and I think it is too bad. We looked more professional the other way, I still wear mostly dark colors, because I have a lot of it and it is practical. Our managers still dress professisonal, but not necessarity in dark color. Male manager use to wear suit and tie, now the often wear a sweater and or just a dark shirt. Even our store manager do not always wear a suit and tie, even though he dresses nicely, so seems to me to be a sign of the times. Things change, I guess it is not the end of the world if our politicians wear something causual. I do think a sweatshirt and shorts is too causual.
The Democrats are now dressing like those that they care for, support and pander to(sell themselves out to) – Bums, criminals, illegal aliens, terrorists, sexual predators,.,.,
Let me point out that the terrorists of 9/11 were quite well dressed. Can’t always judge a book by it’s cover.
@HANNE JEPPESEN.….They were wearing their “Friday go to the mosque, pray to Allah” best clothes on.
Hanne, Thank you for your comment, but –
You missed the point, completely.
Political cartoonists always sum things up so well . . . .
https://www.gocomics.com/stevekelley/2023/09/20
https://www.gocomics.com/garyvarvel/2023/09/20
Next the Democrats will be dressing up as Drag Queens. I say they should be wearing orange jump suits.
Well…
Orange is the New Black
and Black is a formal color
???
🙂
If Senators don’t dress in G-strings, feather boas & spike heels with multi colored face paints on, they are not supporting the tri sexual pervert community and should be held to account by every googly eyed, left wing Bozocrat in the nation.
Statement from Senator John Fetterman: “If those jagoffs in the House stop trying to shut our government down and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor next week.”
Simply because that mental defect cannot dress himself and he is too big for others to sharpen him up. The degradation of society, like going to a ministers funeral dressed in feathers.
show some respect for the office deadbeats
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