Once upon a time this poster gave thousands upon thousands of dollars and raised tens of thousands more for the purpose of delivering a GOP House and Senate to President GW Bush. We succeeded in doing just that in 2004.
And nothing, I mean nothing good came of it because GW had gone full RINO by that time and he was surrounded by the likes of Lott and others.
Breaux was a democrat of course but that didn’t stop GW from selecting him as a director of his tax reform commission which produced absolutely zilch, and I mean zero, nothing, nada in tax reform.
Lott, Breaux, McConnell, McCain, etc., Boehner, McCarthy, etc. These guys are paid mercenaries of those with the cash. It’s why republican beltway consultants keep running back to Mitt Romnut because he has the cash.
Congress is for sale to the highest bidder and the taxpayer doesn’e mean squat in the calculations of beltway mercenaries.
Man, have you hit it on the head.
The taxpayers though are so uninformed or outnumbered that they know nothing of what you point out.
Just seems to me like we should outlaw paid lobyists. A citizen with a gripe should be able to get a place in line outside a congressional door as quick as a corporation/union/country/or any other group of whiners. Ex congress critters should have ZERO special access to their old digs——except maybe the gym.