Why Dorgan and Dodd are “Retiring” – OPINION
January 6, 2010
Here is my explanation as to why Dorgan and Dodd are “Retiring”. Let me start by saying I wish we could only be so lucky with Nancy Pelosi, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein. But let’s move on.
Dick Morris wrote a piece today that suggested Dodd and Dorgan (among other Democrats) were resigning to avoid the shame of losing in the fall. Maybe.
But the conventional wisdom is this; when faced with the prospect of losing, politicians often resign so they can get appointed to some cushy government job in Washington without being branded as total loser. But what does this say about the system?
It says it’s broken. After all, how many failed politicians are now roaming the halls in the bloated bureaucracy of Washington, DC? Look at how many in Clinton’s failed administration found homes in Obama’s government. And more and more, government officials go to the public sector from the public sector and have no private sector experience. If they have never done it, how can they know how to fix OUR problems? The answer is all around us in their failure to understand how free markets work.
Not long ago I read a story from USA Today saying that six figure salaries for federal employees exploded during Obama’s administration. That means the government which produces nothing, will need more of our money to pay those salaries.
How come unemployment in Washington, DC never increases? Have you noticed the only sector that hasn’t been hurt by the economy is government employment? While the news trumpets the fact that dropping unemployment indicates a rebounding economy, tell that to the unemployed who just lost their jobs! It’s like they are whistling in the dark hoping the economy will come back on its own so they can take credit for it. Sorry, the fundamentals are not there for a sound recovery, and students of economics know it.
Next we have the country being held hostage by a few crazies. After piling on regulations and legislation, Barney Frank turns around and blames the aberrant systems he morphed without so much as looking into the mirror. Even worse, he wants to regulate them… again. Last week they even gave Fannie and Freddie a blank check! As a result, the country is being held captive by the deviant whims of one congressman from the fourth district in Massachusetts. How is that Democracy?
Of course, the rest of the country could say the same thing about Nancy Pelosi’s iron fist, but we would agree. Here we have one crazy leftist from California who sets the legislative agenda for the rest of the United States in the House.
So the light at the end of the tunnel is this:
- Incumbent liberal senators and congressmen are “retiring” before they can be booted out (let’s hope some more announce their retirement)
- Many of the Democrats (the ones who gave them the majority in the Senate) were appointees and did not win special elections (they stand to lose to conservatives in the fall)
- Incumbent liberals who are not resigning are close to or are losing in the pollsto conservative challengers
- Recent polls show conservatism is a more popular sentiment than liberalism
The system has worked for over 200 years to make us the greatest country in the history of the world. We don’t need “hope and change” to take us into decline. If we make the right choices this year, it could be the greatest comeback ever known!
- FedUpEditor
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