Posted on 07/14/2015 10:15:55 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
How often at your workplace have you held your tongue out of fear of saying something that could get you fired?
Everyone looks out for their interests. Read that again. You and I and everyone else naturally try to do that which best serves ourselves and our families. Its called human nature and it has served mankind well since the Creation.
The people we send to government are no different. They cant be different, for like us, they are as imperfect as the rest of mankind.
First we must understand that most of the chosen 435 in the House of Reps had to claw, grasp, climb their way up from humble beginnings. Does that sound familiar? Didnt you have to do the same to achieve your level of success?
Anyhow, being in the House means they made it. In this heady environment, most congressmen believe they should be senators and most senators believe they should be president.
What happens to what may otherwise be good and upstanding people? Like anyone else, they respond by varying degree to their surroundings. And nowhere in the nation will more corrupt surroundings be found than in Washington, D.C. Go along to get along with party leadership and lots of extra power and money are virtually guaranteed.
Most of our elected officials would respond in just that manner, conducting themselves in such a way as to facilitate their continued ascent in so-called public service. It is human nature. What you and I do in our own workplace is hardly different from the behavior of politicians. It cannot be any other way!
We can admonish Republicans for their failure to stand up for the Constitution. We can beat up RINOs and blame them for accelerating tyranny. It feels good. I occasionally take part in the sport...
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Until we have TERM LIMITS and no more LIFETIME POLITICIANS, we will never correct the problem. These people we have now would never pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.
I just found out at my republican county meeting that Republicans can NOT rebuke, reprimand, or censure an elected (Texas State Representative) republican for focusing his energy on legislation 180 degrees in opposition of Republican platform.
So once elected, there is nothing we can do until the primary and vote them out. and when an incumbent and one of the richest men in the county, it is hard to get another person in.
I have made it known that I am resigning from the Republican Executive Committee, the Local Republican Committee and all other affiliations I have worked my self to death for during many years. I’ve walked out of meetings and if more people would do so, we might be heard. When I get a letter asking my “opinion” I write what I think, not answers to the questions they ask which are preprogrammed. I delete all appeals for money and where possible I tell them why. In other words after Boehner and McConnell sold us down the river after the 2014 elections,I said, “See ya.” NOBODY is going to tell me what to say, when I can speak, or what to think. Even had a few tell me they would have walked out with me, but were afraid of what others would think. So I told them I didn’t care to associate with sheep.
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