Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Jekyll-Hyde?
Via NRO, this depressing but unsurprising article on the House Republicans. Newt is trying to tell them what's wrong, and they are completely incapable of listening. Instead, they dismiss Newt as a "has-been", and happily seek photo opportunities with Sultan Bush, the most unpopular president in history.
In nearly all situations I'm inclined to lay responsibility on the human rather than the tool or system. Blaming the tool or the system is a destructive leftist mindset. This may be the only major exception to the rule.
Here's why: Nearly all House members have worked their way up from State offices, and State governments are largely sane, generally satisfy their people. So these are demonstrably competent politicians with long experience in normal politics, whether you call it pandering or democracy. Then upon taking office in DC, they instantly start behaving insanely, doing everything possible to make the voters retch in disgust. I simply won't believe that all these competent normal politicians undergo an immediate Jekyll-Hyde transformation or some kind of lobotomy. Must be something truly filthy and bizarre about the system in DC, something that forcefully prohibits normal political behavior. ¶ 8:43 AM
In nearly all situations I'm inclined to lay responsibility on the human rather than the tool or system. Blaming the tool or the system is a destructive leftist mindset. This may be the only major exception to the rule.
Here's why: Nearly all House members have worked their way up from State offices, and State governments are largely sane, generally satisfy their people. So these are demonstrably competent politicians with long experience in normal politics, whether you call it pandering or democracy. Then upon taking office in DC, they instantly start behaving insanely, doing everything possible to make the voters retch in disgust. I simply won't believe that all these competent normal politicians undergo an immediate Jekyll-Hyde transformation or some kind of lobotomy. Must be something truly filthy and bizarre about the system in DC, something that forcefully prohibits normal political behavior. ¶ 8:43 AM
