[justshutupandtakeit]

Why would you associate the great Churchill with THAT idiotic comment? How many decades did Winston serve in governmental positions? 3, 4 , 5? Longer than Breaux no doubt.

Why do businessmen happily throw away millions to become a Senator? Maybe because they realize that is a chance to do something of transcending significance for the nation which overrides the penny-ante life of a businessman?

The Founders understood the necessity for the very best to serve in government how did you fall short of that understanding? Too many Ayn Rand "novels?"

[Hank Rearden]

Complete, utter crap. I'm not surprised, given your screenname, though.

35 years on the public tit is NOT something envisioned by our Founders, who strongly believed in part-time, amateur politicians who had real-world experience and the desire to return to the real world ASAP.

Not gasbag, money-squandering, vote-buying, vote-stealing professional parasites like Breaux. The only "transcendent" thing he's done is help drive up the national debt. That will persist for decades if not centuries - if our theoretically-free Republic lasts that long.

There's timeless political impact for ya.

[Hank Rearden]

And, by the way, NO, I will not "just shut up and take it" - that's just what parasites like Breaux want us to do - and it seems you're completely in favor of that kind of submission to political parasites as well.