Tea Party Impact Still Looms Large

"The GOP establishment has embraced the tea party's candidates and policies in order to defeat them." --DSCC

Certain political snakes always run to the right to secure their incumbency in the primaries and then run left in the generals. Such pols have increased in numbers and are more prevalent in the last decade.

The conservative movement is pushing back against these unprincipled con artists. There is no question that such pols will govern to the left but will feign a rightest approach when the opportunity arises. In other words they will work to move the leftest agenda forward except when it is safe to vote otherwise. McConnell’s behavior during the push to defund Obamacare is a perfect example.

It does not depend on constituents. That’s where the conflict is. The elected pols do not represent the voters. But when they meet if they meet constituents, they always express how they are working to support the conservative agenda when in fact they don’t. For example, McCain swore in front of his constituents in Arizona in front of the cameras that he would “build that border fence”. And it was a lie.

So many examples can be listed. It’s really a game to these people. What the country thinks is not so relevant to these pols as what they think is good for the people to be governed by. They think the people don’t know what they want or otherwise are not competent to know what they need. They really do look at themselves as a sort of aristocracy, more as privileged denizens of the Beltway class than as representatives of some folks back home.

From the perspectives of unprincipled pols, the constituents are back seat drivers who can be annoying.

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