Once again the incestuous relationships that dominate life inside the beltway come to light!
Do I dare say; our founding fathers had it right when they set up a Republic based on part time legislators who spent more time at their homes in the states/districts that elected them than in “the halls of power”.
Like it or not inside the beltway has become their own universe that bears little resemblance to what we endure.
We were accidently granted a glimpse into this beltway universe in late 1994 - after the “Republican Revolution”. CNN was interviewing a congressional staffer who had lost his job because his congress critter had lost his first reelection bid. The poor man didn’t know how he was going to pay his bills, feed his family, or put his child(ren?) through college. Welcome to life outside the beltway!! Towards the end of the interview the CNN reporter found out that particular staffer had been working in that congressional district office for more than a decade.
That’s right the staffer had more seniority than his boss. Do we need any further discussion on how 1,000 page bills mysteriously appear on the Congressional floor without any committee involvement? Why congress critters don’t take time to read those bills? Or, any justification for “We have to pass the bill to find out what is in it!”?
This attitude isn’t new - it has been building for more than 20 years. Only recently has the infection become so bad that they cannot hide it any more.
All Democrat staffers and most of the Republican staffers are some of the most slithering scumbags you can imagine.