SweetLuv asked:


Do you think they will be perceived negatively because people dislike psychiatrists? Do you think they will be good at politics because they are trained to get inside your mind? Do you think that the other politicians will have a field day with it and try to use it to attack them? What is your overall opinion of it?

Christopher

3 Responses to “What do you think about a psychiatrist entering politics?”

1. answer my question on November 9th, 2009 4:39 am

   Jennifer

   they will be goood politicians!

2. Mark D on November 11th, 2009 2:05 am

   Jack

   Congressman Jim McDermott, who represents the city of Seattle in the House, seems kinda nuts to me. He was a longtime pyschiatrist, including serving as such in the Navy.

3. bmovies60 on November 13th, 2009 9:43 pm

   Tristan

   Mark D writes: “Congressman Jim McDermott, who represents the city of Seattle in the House, seems kinda nuts to me. He was a longtime pyschiatrist, including serving as such in the Navy”

   And he was busted:

   Rep. Jim McDermott had no right to disclose the contents of an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

   In a 5-4 opinion, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott, a Washington Democrat, should not have given reporters access to the taped telephone call.

   McDermott’s offense was especially egregious since he was a senior member of the House ethics committee, the court said.

   When he became a member of the ethics panel, McDermott “voluntarily accepted a duty of confidentiality that covered his receipt and handling of the … illegal recording. He therefore had no First Amendment right to disclose the tape to the media,” Judge A. Raymond Randolph wrote on behalf of the court. Four judges agreed with him.

   The ruling upholds a previous decision ordering McDermott to pay House Minority Leader John Boehner (news, bio, voting record), R-Ohio, more than $700,000 for leaking the taped conversation. The figure includes $60,000 in damages and more than $600,000 in legal costs.

   Boehner was among several GOP leaders heard on the December 1996 call, which involved ethics allegations against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga. Gingrich, who was heard on the call telling Boehner and others how to react to allegations, was later fined $300,000 and reprimanded by the House.

   McDermott leaked the tape to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The New York Times, which published stories on the case in January 1997.