Posted on 11/06/2014 4:45:20 PM PST by Aspenhuskerette
“The people have spoken, and they must be punished,” former New York City Mayor Ed Koch famously vented in defeat.
In sweeping away waves of Democrats in Tuesday’s midterm election — even in blue states like Maryland, Illinois and Massachusetts — a punished and disrespected American people have vented, silencing the politicians whose agenda and tactics they soundly rejected.
In this collective Think Again election, Harry Reid was demoted for allowing hyper-partisanship to trump the constitutional integrity of the Senate, known as the “world’s most deliberative body” — except under Reid’s leadership.
Though Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu’s fate awaits a December runoff, she typified the political class’s disdain for constituents, attributing electoral woes to their sexism and racism. “The South hasn’t always been the friendliest place for African-Americans,” she told NBC correspondent Chuck Todd during her campaign’s frantic homestretch, nor “a good place for women to present ourselves.”
But with the American dream slipping beyond reach for ordinary citizens, and amid unease over America’s increasingly weak standing in the world, how is dissing one’s constituents a winning message?
Apparently, that’s shrewd politics, even in a state that thrice elected Landrieu and just re-elected its Indian governor, according to the New Republic’s Brian Beutler, who applauded “Landrieu’s candor (because it) came in the service of her political interest.”
Herein lies America’s gravest problem, one that Tuesday’s midterm tsunami should help mitigate: Rather than do the right thing even when no one is looking — the definition of integrity — today’s self-serving leaders routinely do the wrong yet politically advantageous thing, even when everybody’s looking.
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Actually, Ed Koch’s remark wasn’t venting, it was a gag in response to a reporter’s question that implicitly urged him to run again in the next election.
Koch was a character. I kind of liked him.
You got to read the article...the ending is about Koch....
Democrats are anti-American scum.
Good article, as usual. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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