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There
Are No Indispensable Men
By Erick Erickson
July 16th, 2013
There
are no indispensable men, but
go to Washington and everyone treats everyone else as indispensable.
Mitch
McConnell and John Boehner
have been in the United States Congress since 1985. In that time the
national
debt has grown from $1,823,103,000,000.00 to $16,066,241,407,385.89. In
that
time the GOP went from being the part of small government to the party
of
slightly smaller than the Democrats. No Child Left Behind, Medicare
Part D,
TARP, the General Motors bailout, and so much more happened on their
watch.
But
they remain and voters who vote
party and not person keep supporting them. But they are not
indispensable. No
man is indispensable. The longer one stays in Washington though, the
more
desperate one becomes to stay in Washington. They collaborate in a
system of
arrangements whereby they get more power and more influence. Their
staff leaves
to K Street creating a feedback loop. They and their Democratic
counterparts
reward friends and steer policy not toward ideas and ideology, but
toward power
with themselves in the center of it.
No
man is indispensable. Mike Enzi
(R-WY) is right there with them.
Mike
Enzi is a fine Republican, but
he is not putting points on the board for conservatives. We need more
like Ted
Cruz and less like . . . well . . . Mike Enzi. We need less rudderless
Republicans who shuffle around at the direction of their leadership and
lobbyist friends...
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