[Gaffer]

In her post, The Lonely Conservative asks a simple question. She wants to know what the GOP establishment is so afraid of. I would echo that same question.

Imagine belonging to a club, one that affords the most this country has to offer - its own barber shop, cafeteria and dining room, banking facility, free parking on-site and at the airport, at-will seating at almost every restaurant in town, all that.

Couple that with a sizeable staff, budget and a job that requires you only to appease the party in power, and to make the odd trip back home to stand up on a stump and lie about what you did. You still have the power.

Democrats (and the Administration) in charge realize the value of sharing a bit of that power...it is needed to keep the appeasement coming; it is called second-tier power. Just like when Alexander conquered a country, he would leave one of the local appeasers in power....share some of the wealth.

That's our Senate, and the higher ups in the House. They don't want to upset the cart and would be willing to do anything to keep the status quo. Nothing that goes on in the rest of the country affects them; they are immunized against it, mainly by exempting themselves from the deleterious effects of their own laws.

They crave the attention on the Sunday shows, they get their bottoms powdered and their cheeks and asses kissed - when they appease and are 'bipartisan'. They know the majority of their constituents don't watch them, it is just for DC consumption.

All of them, McCain, Cornyn, McConnell, Graham, Boehner (and his second) are pleased as punch to step up and have us out here in realville give up the fight because "we can get them later if we just WAIT until 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020....wait until they are ready to retire.

Damn them all.

PS Krauthammer can suck it, too. He's just trying to keep his token faux conservative moniker so he can stay on that Sunday gravy train too.

[Mark17]

Well put.

[EricT.]

One of the finest posts I’ve ever read.

[Alex Murphy]

Imagine belonging to a club, one that affords the most this country has to offer....Democrats (and the Administration) in charge realize the value of sharing a bit of that power...it is needed to keep the appeasement coming; it is called second-tier power. Just like when Alexander conquered a country, he would leave one of the local appeasers in power....share some of the wealth.

I think that's the best description of the House and Senate that I've ever read. Thank you for posting it.

[bigtoona]

Excellent summary and I never knew Alexander did that. Second tier power is a great way to describe the GOP methods.

[bonehead4freedom]

Couldn’t have said it any better!