Ah, politics.
If these people were truly “representing” their constituencies, would they just leave like this?
Our “public servants” are not servants at all. They are power-seeking egomaniacs, intent on garnering power and percs.
We’ve done something wrong when these are the kinds of people we choose to represent us.
It isn’t specifically stated in the Constitution, but I remember hearing in my 8th-grade U.S. History class that members of the House of Representatives were elected to two-year terms because they were supposed to be ordinary people that would go to Washington for a short time to represent ordinary people and then return to their jobs and homes.
Nancy Pelosi, anyone? The Congressional Black Caucus? 435 people that were supposed to be “just us folks” have become a ruling class and think of themselves as elite arbiters of what we “should” be and think.
Remember that when you screw in your mandated light bulb after next Sunday. Or when you consider that members of Congress are exempt from many of the laws they pass. Or when your children have to go to public schools while theirs do not.
The “people’s house.” HAH!
In Jacksonion times, we’d say, “Bullsh&t!”
