Posted on 10/06/2008 3:31:55 PM PDT by Maelstorm
After the votes were taken, The Washington Post expressed shock that some 83 percent of retiring Republicans voted for the bailout while no GOP freshmen did so. To the Post this was evidence not that elected representatives sometimes actually listen to their constituents, but that the Republican freshmen are too ideologically oriented to deal with reality. It never even occurred to the Post writer that perhaps the retiring members have as a group been in Washington so long that even had they been facing reelection the voters mattered less to them than the demands of the Washington establishment.
Establishment praise was restricted to those who never or no longer had to pay attention to the people they supposedly represent, including members from safe districts who vote as they please without fear of losing their jobs for betraying the very folks who send them here.
Retiring Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia, for example, who has made a career of parroting the views of The Washington Post’s editorial writers, was so offended that former Gov. Jim Gilmore (who is running to succeed him) wouldn’t endorse the bailout that he announced that he, therefore, couldn’t support Gilmore. Interestingly, the bailout debate and the potential consequences of acting or not acting were more thoughtful outside the Beltway. Discussions in a Wolf Creek, Mont., bar made more sense than the televised floor debates or the opinion pages of Washington’s papers.
They reflected the 3-to-1 ratio of the public opposed to the bailout, and were far more knowledgeable than Congress about the potential moral and economic costs.
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I’m glad the RINO dinosaur is retiring
RINOS SUCK!
Can the good Freepers in Virginia make sure Gimore gets into office...PLEASE!?!?!??!
With all due respect, f- you, Juan "RINO" Warner.
Is that guy still alive?!
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