Timothy Birdnow

As you all know I am very hard on Iowa Senator Joni Ernst. But when she gets something right I will praise her. She is getting [/link=https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/07/exclusive-joni-ernst-evicting-washington-bureaucrats/]this one right.

Ernst wants to kick many of the bureaucracies out of Washington, forcing them to relocate well outside the beltway. She also wants to reduce the amount of "work from home" positions (which are essentially no-show jobs like the mafia uses to milk federal funds from construction projects).

I've long argued the District of Columbia should become a purely symbolic seat of government, that the actual work of government should occur in the states themselves. I would especially like to see Congress move back to their respective home states and face their voters. How many times have we seen guys elected, move to D.C. and never return home? I remember Missouri's own Dick Gephardt, who was the House Minority Leader for the Democrats. He was considered a moderate, pro-life Democrat when he ran for office but as soon as he got a taste of the high life in D.C. he turned into a radical swamp-rat and never looked back. Gephardt left Congress in 2004 and has since been a lobbyist, President and CEO of Gephardt Group. He never returned to Missouri or his home here in South St. Louis (where I live).

We should MAKE them live in their home districts. it can be done with virtual votes in Congress and teleconferencing. Perhaps they can come to D.C. a couple times of year but then they should have to live in barracks-style housing, spartan at best. Make them stay at home and face the people who they supposedly represent.

The party should be over. Now it's one endless party with all sorts of goodies and fun! fun! fun! as they eat, drink, and are merry on the taxpayer dime. That needs to change.

That's why you have to cart these people out in a pine box. Look at McConnell. Look at Pelosi. Look at Biden They are geriatrics who should have long ago taken up the rocking chair. Instead they are running America and doing a terrible job in the process. Nobody wants to voluntarily leave the best gig anyone could ever have.

The legendary S-F writer Arthur C. Clark once wrote a short story about politics and how polital ambition eats the ambitious alive in a wonderful non-science fiction story called Death and the Senator. If you have time I suggest you download it and read it.

In the end what does all that money and power and privilege get you? What does it cost you? When you are on your deathbed it won't matter much that you were a famous Senator who traveled and partied and enjoyed the company of women. You will lie there full of regret at what you didn't do - be there for your family, protect your friends, LOVE people. Your life will largely be in vain.

So it may be a charity to break the cycle for so many who are tethered to Washington. Washington is a drug and the political class, including the beuracracy, are addicts.

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