But whether Bundy is squeaky clean or legally in the right is not the only issue; the issue is that we have an armed federal bureacracy that is so vast, so powerful, so out of touch with the people, and so tyrannical in nature that they fail to recognize (or perhaps simply don't care about) the impact on public trust and popular sentiment incurred by
(i) taking away a mans livelihood by limiting the number of cattle permitted to graze as a condition of renewing his grazing rights on a property his family has stewarded since before there was a BLM
(ii) using their unlimited resources to wear him down emotionally and financially in the courts over a period of decades and finally
(iii) trying to take his cattle through direct force, with a para-military assault under dubious pretenses.
Rand Paul is the only one who has addressed THIS issue ("The federal government shouldn’t violate the law, nor should we have 48 federal agencies carrying weapons and having SWAT teams") as far as I know.
But on the subject of the title of this thread, which is that DC GOP politicians haven't leapt to the defense of Mr. Bundy...
That's a choice concerning whether to make Mr. Bundy a symbol of the larger issues you enumerate so well.
The MSM would like nothing better than to discredit an individual who symbolizes an issue our side believes strongly in.
If he turns out to have feet of clay, the MSM would see to it that his flaws are the only thing that anyone remembers about this entire episode.
I agree that Bundy’s no longer the issue. Fedthuggery is the issue.