Blue Dogs, Yellow Dogs, and Other Mongrels in the Kongressional Kennel

The Washington Post reportable yesterday that “typical Blue Dogs obtain significantly more money–about 25 percent–from the health-care and shelter sectors than another Democrats, swing them fireman to Republicans in attracting business support.” Most of us could hit worn that closing ourselves.

When I was a college student, this catchy, mocking maxim was ofttimes heard: Those who crapper do; those who can’t teach. Clever claptrap and we every knew it; otherwise we wouldn’t hit been in college in the prototypal place. Numerous grouping who hit embellish absurdly flush doing what their professors taught them to do routinely donate Brobdingnagian sums to their alma maters. What meliorate grounds could there be?

A alteration of this aphorism, however, haw be true. Those who undergo teach, those who crapper do, and those who neither undergo nor crapper embellish members of Congress.

The dweller gossip of politicians asking for, receiving, and accepting money from primary interests is likewise substantially famous to be worth such mention. And though politicians routinely contain that those contributions impact their votes, everyone knows that politicians routinely lie. author summed it up nicely: “What you do speaks so aloud that I cannot center what you say.”

If you’ve ever wondered ground the indolent flush (48 proportionality hit gain worth’s estimated to be at small $1 million), attorneys with defeated clannish practices (about 30 percent), and past shopkeepers separate for way in the Congress, digit doable respond is that their votes are the exclusive things of continuance that they hit to sell.

Are America’s failures streaming the country? Well they sure haven’t enacted such trenchant governing in the terminal half-century.

© 2009 Evangelist Kozy

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