“How many on our side have that kind of dedication?”
Not many. Furthermore, “our side” ( and I use that term loosely) doesn’t have the stomach for the kind of fight that the RATS bring. To combat the RATs we need people who come to Washington with the notion that they are there to leave the opposition’s jock straps hanging in the restroom torn and bloody! But what do we get “Meier the Cryer Boner,” and his sleazy “side men.”
I’d say that Issa has the stones for the fight. Allen West too. Maybe the thing to do is have these guys running the show, not the good ol’ boy network. But you’re right - the collective will to fight these *ssholes to the death on the House floor and in the Senate is lacking.