There
are no indispensable men, but go to Washington and everyone treats everyone
else as indispensable.
Mitch
McConnell and John Boehner have been in the United States Congress since 1985.
In that time the national debt has grown from $1,823,103,000,000.00 to
$16,066,241,407,385.89. In that time the GOP went from being the part of small
government to the party of slightly smaller than the Democrats. No Child Left
Behind, Medicare Part D, TARP, the General Motors bailout, and so much more
happened on their watch.
But they
remain and voters who vote party and not person keep supporting them. But they
are not indispensable. No man is indispensable. The longer one stays in
Washington though, the more desperate one becomes to stay in Washington. They
collaborate in a system of arrangements whereby they get more power and more
influence. Their staff leaves to K Street creating a feedback loop. They and
their Democratic counterparts reward friends and steer policy not toward ideas
and ideology, but toward power with themselves in the center of it….To ReadMore…..
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