Say Something, Anything!

Tribune-Review ^ | October 23, 2005 | Salena Zito

[salenaz]

Say something, anything

By Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Sunday, October 23, 2005

Our legislators are elected neither to serve leadership nor to retain plum committee chairs; they're elected to serve and represent their constituents.

Where was the service? Where was the representation?

Call it a failure to serve. Their position on a clear and difficult decision was risk-averse.

How different the newspapers would be today had our legislators just voiced their concerns before the issue went to a vote, or if they had forced it into floor debate.

But hindsight is as hindsight does -- and that is nothing. There are no reverse-crystal balls that can show us how this would have played out had they put up a fight.

Whether they were for the pay raise before they were against it, they still get it.

Makes you wonder about the hypocrisy of the repealers and the repenters.

[freekitty]

I, for one, am sick and tired of supporting our politicians their phoney agendas.

I would love to clean the lot of them out of office. They don't deserve our respect; much less our money.

[freekitty]

I forgot to add "forced support".

[R. Scott]

Our legislators are elected neither to serve leadership nor to retain plum committee chairs; they're elected to serve and represent their constituents.

Try telling that to a politician. Some may start that way as city council members, but after the second term it’s politics as usual. When it comes to the professional politician that starts at the US Senate level – it’s all about the bennies and the power.