I never realized what was going on until I started spending a lot of time in DC.
People outside of here have no idea what is going on.
Fat city for the politicians and all of the people who work for the government and their contractors.
Booming recession proof economy at all times in DC, the media is in on it too.
GOP congressmen may be conservative when they get here, but after a year or two all they care about is staying and collecting an enormous pension and perks.
They are already spreading our wealth around quite nicely.
The Bushes are creatures of the bureaucracy and never lifted a finger to cut spending.
They looked out for the apparatchiks and hung the conservative movement out to dry.
That's why what Newt did was so great. Like Reagan saying he wanted to defeat the Soviets, not live with them, Newt said he wanted to be in the majority. Everyone laughed, but he did it, with some help from Reagan's legacy and Clinton's over reaching. It could have been a lasting base for several generations of conservative rule, if they had stayed principled.
Bush II (compassionate conservatism?...No child....New Tone?)and some old-style RINO GOP leaders killed off those hopes, and gave us Nancy Pelosi and now, perhaps, Lord Obama. Heaven help us indeed.