[Paine in the Neck]

It starts with their arrival in DC. The controlling cabal assign well-vetted GOPe overseers spies staff to the rookies. These staff immediately begin nudging the newbies into line with the uniparty herd. Winks and nods about future riches and social status, rewards and punishment of cmte appointments, office space, party $upport, threats of being 'sent to Coventry' both at work and on the social scene, isolation from the compass of the grassroots. All these and more work in concert to set the freshman adrift in the putrid swamp on the Potomac. Very few can hold their course for long. Even fewer seem to come out with their reputations intact.

[T-Bird45]

The controlling cabal assign well-vetted GOPe overseers spies staff to the rookies. These staff immediately begin nudging the newbies into line with the uniparty herd.

You mean there was some truth and not just Hollywood dramatics in the early DC scenes in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"? Wowzers...knock me over with a feather...