These are three long articles that are well worth reading so I am just greatly excerpting them and posting the links. It is worth the 20 minutes of your time to go and read the originals.
First: The laws are for the little people -- The New York Times:
Top Cuomo Aide Delivers Public Rebuke of State Worker Who Talked to the PressSecond: Pants on Fire - Obama is a serial lier -- Bob Woodward shows some of his original fire and journalist chops. The Washington Post:
Mike Fayette broke the rules. An engineer at the New York State Transportation Department, he gave an interview to a reporter from The Adirondack Daily Enterprise.
In the interview, Mr. Fayette praised Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the transportation workers who had labored to repair roads and bridges washed out by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. No matter. His supervisors said he had not been authorized to speak to the press, and they moved to fire him; he retired instead and left in February.
Obama�s sequester deal-changerHint: It was Obama and Jack Lew. Finally: Why we are not represented. From Forbes:
Misunderstanding, misstatements and all the classic contortions of partisan message management surround the sequester, the term for the $85 billion in ugly and largely irrational federal spending cuts set by law to begin Friday.
What is the non-budget wonk to make of this? Who is responsible? What really happened?
The finger-pointing began during the third presidential debate last fall, on Oct. 22, when President Obama blamed Congress. �The sequester is not something that I�ve proposed,� Obama said. �It is something that Congress has proposed.�
As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are OrphanedThis last article is the key one -- why doesn't the Republican party represent us? Why did the Tea Party need to form? Why is Karl Rove still relevant? The author - Angelo M. Codevilla - is Professor Emeritus of international relations at Boston University and a fellow of the Claremont Institute. Time to drain the swamp and start fresh.
On January 1, 2013 one third of Republican congressmen, following their leaders, joined with nearly all Democrats to legislate higher taxes and more subsidies for Democratic constituencies. Two thirds voted no, following the people who had elected them. For generations, the Republican Party had presented itself as the political vehicle for Americans whose opposition to ever-bigger government financed by ever-higher taxes makes them a �country class.� Yet modern Republican leaders, with the exception of the Reagan Administration, have been partners in the expansion of government, indeed in the growth of a government-based �ruling class.� They have relished that role despite their voters. Thus these leaders gradually solidified their choice to no longer represent what had been their constituency, but to openly adopt the identity of junior partners in that ruling class. By repeatedly passing bills that contradict the identity of Republican voters and of the majority of Republican elected representatives, the Republican leadership has made political orphans of millions of Americans. In short, at the outset of 2013 a substantial portion of America finds itself un-represented, while Republican leaders increasingly represent only themselves.
