It is shocking to observe that not a single Republican legislator appears to have a functional spine, much less a moral compass. For that matter, neither do most Democrats. I think that American voters on both sides of the aisle fail to realize that nearly all their legislators are dim bulbs. MTG and Tuberville are the norm, not exceptio…
It is shocking to observe that not a single Republican legislator appears to have a functional spine, much less a moral compass. For that matter, neither do most Democrats. I think that American voters on both sides of the aisle fail to realize that nearly all their legislators are dim bulbs. MTG and Tuberville are the norm, not exceptions. Thanks to Citizens United, nearly all are selected by the super-rich to do what they are told.
I spent the majority of my career in Washington, so I had to periodically interact with Capitol Hill denizens. During my first Pentagon tour as a junior officer, I developed a reputation as a ghost-buster - the who-ya-gonna-call guy. That increasingly required interactions with Congress.
Most new bills are written by their donors' lobbyists without regard to unintended consequences for government excellence. As everybody in DC is tuned all day to WII-FM (What's In It For Me), I learned to tactfully point out destructive elements of new bills in a way that they could view as politically consequential in order to encourage trimming away the bad stuff or adding some good stuff.
What we seem to be witnessing today is that the pretense of voter representation has been torn away like the Wizard of Oz curtain, as the oligarchs now brazenly rule rather than pretend to legislate through their minions on Capitol Hill.
It is shocking to observe that not a single Republican legislator appears to have a functional spine, much less a moral compass. For that matter, neither do most Democrats. I think that American voters on both sides of the aisle fail to realize that nearly all their legislators are dim bulbs. MTG and Tuberville are the norm, not exceptions. Thanks to Citizens United, nearly all are selected by the super-rich to do what they are told.
I spent the majority of my career in Washington, so I had to periodically interact with Capitol Hill denizens. During my first Pentagon tour as a junior officer, I developed a reputation as a ghost-buster - the who-ya-gonna-call guy. That increasingly required interactions with Congress.
Most new bills are written by their donors' lobbyists without regard to unintended consequences for government excellence. As everybody in DC is tuned all day to WII-FM (What's In It For Me), I learned to tactfully point out destructive elements of new bills in a way that they could view as politically consequential in order to encourage trimming away the bad stuff or adding some good stuff.
What we seem to be witnessing today is that the pretense of voter representation has been torn away like the Wizard of Oz curtain, as the oligarchs now brazenly rule rather than pretend to legislate through their minions on Capitol Hill.
Maybe SS -- spinal stenosis. Sometimes "bridging" fuses the spine. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5204263-senate-republicans-elon-musk-social-security/