Timothy Birdnow

Here is a fine essay on the trouble Louisiana's Republican RINO Bill Cassidy - one of the cretins who voted to convict President Trump during his impeachment - is facing in the land of Carville.

As the essay points out, Cassidy is operating from the old model which avoided any accountability. Before the rise of the internet, before podcasts and blogs and Fox News and Newsmax and talk radio, this model worked well; govern as a brown-noser to the Democrats and get the media to love you, then turn hard-right as election time nears and drape yourself in the flag and Ronald Reagan. Then as soon as you win you revert to the anal kissing and flip your constituents the bird.

It used to work and money covered up your sins.

It was a sweet gig! You enjoyed money, power, fame, prestige. You got invited to the swankest parties. You had people hanging on your every word. And you knew that once in you would always have a great source of revenue one way or another. It was a golden ticket.

I've long argued that the Establishment GOP has always sought to keep Congress on a knife-edge, to keep the two parties near parity, because they then can argue that the public dare not turn out the RINO's lest they lose control of Congress - or fall farther behind. So for decades we've had to hold our noses and vote for clowns like Cassidy and Cornyn lest the Democrats take those seats. Meanwhile the GOP Establishment can play footsie with the Democrats and enjoy the perks of being the Big Man in D.C. And in fact many Republicans prefer to actually be in the minority - less work and better press. They want the goodies but not the responsibility that goes with it.

Christ took our stripes so we didn't have to. That is the model for leadership; doing the hard things, taking the arrows of the enemy, so the People do not have to. RINO Republicans aren't leaders; they are self-seeking scoundrels who use their positions for their own benefit and come home to blow smoke rings to the public at election time. Many would never return to their home states at all if they had their druthers.

The truth will out and especially now that we have the means to remind everyone. You can't keep playing the same con game on the same people forever.

So the "honorable" Mr. Cassidy is now facing early retirement and he is no doubt frantic to hold on, as almost every scumbag in D.C. seems to be. Nobody wants to lose that gig. The fact is if these were leaders, if they were truly serving the public, they would want to quit, want to go home. It would be too much work and too much trouble. The fact that so many are so desperate to stay in the swamp is proof they have no business representing the public in government. They do not serve the public - the serve themselves.

Say goodnight Cassidy!

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