Posted on 12/17/2013 4:04:08 PM PST by markomalley
Outside groups don’t arrive in DC with 55 gallon drums of “palm oil”.
That is easy. Lobbyists give politicians tons of money and pay for “informational getaways” where they live high on the hog while lobbyists foot the bill for their airfare, fancy hotels, expensive golf outings, and gourmet dinners all the while telling the politicians how smart and good looking they are.
“Here’s what youse is to do and here’s youse campaign contribution.”
Politicians like things simple.
Follow the money.
Something like "If you can't take their money, drink their liquor, and screw their women, and still vote against them, you don't belong in Washington".
I think congressmen should be sequestered in their home districts and states most of the time. Good luck getting the big money to spend a lot of time in John Conyer’s district.
I’ll take “Follow The Money” for $400 please, Alex...
The polititians of the GOPe want the following from us conservatives: Our votes, our work leading up to elections like calling the public that enjoys being called so much, working at the polls in the heat of the primary election and the cold rain of the general election, and knocking on doors in the heat, cold, or rain depending on the day. They want our contributions all year.
What their wise men don’t want is any constructive suggestions or comments about how their strategies are falling flat as they have been with great regularity since the Reagan era.
Cruz never “promised” he could defund Obamacare. He said from the beginning “if” the American people overwhelmed Congress with calls and e-mails demanding it, then they could do it. He never said a minority of congress could do it on their own without public pressure to sway others.
....Groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund certainly attack their GOP targets as harshly and uncharitably as the parties generally attack one another. Is this out of bounds?.....
Not at all.
It wasn’t the American people that stopped the defund effort.
It was Boehner.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. (Harry Truman)
Uniparty news again
The GOPe attacks conservatives and they complain when the conservatives fight back
This is example number one why things never change in Washington.
Too many Pies to stick your hand in and grab cash out of.
Such is how a Uniparty is formed.
Elected representatives for the most part see themselves as America’s royalty - especially senators.
The Lobbyists come to them bearing gifts.
“Outside Groups”, like the citizens who vote and taxpayers who pay their salaries have strange and irritating misconceptions about about who works for whom.
cripplecreek wrote:
“Outside groups dont arrive in DC with 55 gallon drums of palm oil”
True34, they arrive with old nasty, tattered piece of parchment paper called The U.S. Constitution, and a baseball bat, signed by their constituents, to be apllied with great vigor!”
That was "big daddy" Jesse Unruh talking about Sacramento.
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