Politicians are supposed to be public servants. They work for us. They hold positions of public trust. And you want to ignore all of that, ignore a politican playing games with people's lives as petty political revenge, simply because he's on our side? What utter nonsense.
In/from my years of public service I would guess at least 80% of elected officials are bought and paid for and practically all public employees with their unions do not worry too much about dedicated public service. Just weigh the money being paid/given to these public servants compared to what non public employees earn to get the gist of so called public service.