"Politicians - Worthless,
Toothless, Spineless and Honorless"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and
nationally recognized author and speaker on freedom and property rights
issues.
© Copyright Sunday, March
1, 2015 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, February 25, 2015
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We've all heard them on the campaign trail when
the political candidate says; "When I get to Washington I'm going to
do this, this and this." They might even
mean it at the time, but when they do get to Washington, they are sat down in a
closed-door session with the party elite and the "system" is explained to them,
in no uncertain terms. The new, idealist politician is told to either tow
the party line, or lose any chance at committee assignments, or more
importantly, money for their re-election. So like good little boys and
girls who are addicted to the elixir of power, they tow the line.
Mavericks, idealists, or those guided by principle, don't last long in the
"system", no matter which party.
If they aren't addicted to the elixir of power,
they soon become addicted to the elixir of money. Part of "towing the
line" is working with the lobbyists. Since 1998 the amount of money spent on
lobbying in Washington DC has more than doubled from $1.45 Billion in 1998 to
$3.21 Billion in 2014. That's billions folks. The number of actual
paid lobbyists in Washington DC, although the number has decreased in recent
years, was as high as 14,489 in 2006. The natural question to ask
is, where does all that money go?
(Source: https://www.opensecrets.org/
Being addicted to anything can lead to more addiction, crime,
corruption, graft, bribery, payoffs and collusion and can even lead to
infidelity, mistresses, illicit sex and divorce, or $90,000 in cash salted away
in a politician's freezer. Being addicted to political power and money
only magnifies the addictive behavior. In Washington DC it is a highly
communicable disease with no cure. Once the politician, judge, or
bureaucrat arrives in the nation's capitol, they are infected. Only those
with the greatest will power can resist the pressure put on politicians to
forsake principle for power and money. Sadly, those with the greatest will
power to resist power and money, very seldom have long futures in
politics.
Unfortunately, it gets worse when the fourth estate (news
media), whose constitutional duty it is to expose corruption in politics,
joins the corruption. To give you an idea of the collusion and incestuous
relationships between the fourth estate and politicians, one only needs to see
who is running the show at the major media outlets. Here is a
sample:
* ABC
News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan Rice, National Security
Adviser.
* CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of
Ben Rhodes, Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic
Communications.
* ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is
married to former Whitehouse Press Secretary Jay Carney.
* ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew
Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obama's Deputy Press
Secretary
* ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of
Obama's Special Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood
* CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to
former Hillary Clinton's Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.
If you are looking for exposes' on political corruption, or
objectivity in news reporting, you aren't going to find it in the Mainstream
Media (including Cable news) and the Mainstream Media
is where most of America gets its news. The only counter to the Mainstream
Media is the Internet and it is so fraught with misinformation, distortions and
outright lies, it is a poor substitute for news.
As a case in point about the Internet, how many of you have
received the e-mail with a 19 second video clip by President Obama, allegedly at
the Bilderberg meeting in Brussels in May of 2014, calling for a new world order
and that the people are not informed enough for self government? In
effect, Obama says in the clip that the people must bow to the world
elite. It turns out that this video was a masterful bit of dubbing,
cutting and pasting. It looks real, but it is a hoax. Nevertheless,
we still hold Obama in contempt. Learn more about the hoax at this link. http://fellowshipoftheminds.
Even the much-touted Fox News is guilty of misinformation and
intentional bias. O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor" is so full of his own
arrogance and his brow beating of guests as a result, hardly deserves the
accolade of the "No Spin Zone". Arrogance is his name and spin is his
game. But then O'Reilly isn't alone in the news media spin game.
Have you watched the other cable news channels like MSNBC or CNN, or the
Mainstream ABC, NBC or CBS? Talk about spin and bias! It's
rampant.
This political corruption and collusion is not limited to just
federal politics. It goes down to the state and the local level as
well. Many people say that there is no difference between Democrats and
Republicans and they are probably right. We have an example that proves
that point in spades right here in Washington State. They don't call us
the "left" coast for nothing.
The Washington State legislature is currently debating a
massive $15 Billion transportation bill that includes a 12-cent per gallon
increase (actually 11.7 cents) in the gas tax for roads, bridges and
other infrastructure. Now keep in mind that the legislature already passed
a 9.5-cent per gallon increase in the gas tax for the same reason in 2005.
The bill is being debated in the Transportation Committee,
chaired by a Republican Senator, one Curtis King of Yakima, WA, a sanctuary city
and county for tens of thousands of illegal aliens. So Senator King, in
the usual political arrogance, appeared on a local radio show and in an ala
Harvard Professor Gruber moment, called the voters and his constituents little
children that had to be guided by his infinite wisdom. (see: https://soundcloud.com/law-
So this Republican, who professes to be one, is all for a giant
tax increases, along with all the Democrats who never found a tax they didn't
like.
We responded to the "good" Senator with:
Senator King: (he
didn’t rate a "Dear")
As a national author on freedom, liberty and
property rights issues, I never resort to expletives, except maybe for an
occasional Hell or Damn. But your comments about the voters and your
constituents being children left me with nothing but expletives streaming from
my mind and my mouth.
You arrogant S-O-B. We are not your
children!
How dare you elevate your self as superior over the
people you are supposed to represent. You sound like Professor Gruber from
Harvard saying the people are stupid when it comes to health care and the only
way to get Health Care passed was to dupe them .... BECAUSE THEY ARE STUPID, as
he says. How are you any different than Prof. Gruber?
I'll pit my mind and knowledge of the issues
against your mind any day of the week. Now I don't know about your constituents
in Yakima, who are probably mostly ignorant illegal alien peasants who get
driver's licenses and vote, but the rest of us in Washington State are a hell of
a lot smarter about the issues facing the State than you are, because you see
Senator King, we have to pay the damn bills you run up in the
legislature.
In 2005 you convinced us in Washington State that
the state had to raise the gas tax by 9.5 cents per gallon to pay for roads,
bridges and other infrastructure.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 9.5 CENTS SENATOR KING?
IT'S STILL THERE. WHAT IS IT PAYING FOR? THAT 9.5
CENTS WAS LOADED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CRAP THAT IF IN PLACE AT THE TIME WE BUILT
THE U. S. FREEWAY SYSTEM, THE FREEWAYS WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN
BUILT.
WHY ON EARTH DO YOU NEED 12 CENTS MORE? PROBABLY
FOR MORE ENVIRONMENTAL CRAP.
You call yourself a Republican, which should mean
you believe in limited government and less taxes. If not, then you are just a
RINO, or a Democrat in Republican garb. Since you are an apparent fraud, I
call on you to resign.
But you won't resign because you are a fraud, you
are arrogant, and you certainly don't represent the Republicans in Washington
State, much less in the 14th Legislative District.
You are just another reason why Republicans are no
different than Democrats and all you want is more of our tax money to pay for
more and more social services and mega projects with huge cost overruns to buy
off voters or business for their votes.
Who gets bought off with the 12 cents Senator
King?
You, and all others like you, spit in the eye of
every hard working citizen of this state who are robbed blind to pay for your
corruption. This isn't America. It is a racket, engaged in
racketeering.
Our message was also sent to the local news media, the entire
Washington State Legislature, the State GOP, a couple of local talk show hosts
and a large list of local voters.
And there is more. Right now, the Republicans in the U.
S. Senate, even with a significant majority, can't seem to override the power of
Harry Reid's Democrats in getting conservative legislation passed. When
the Democrats were in the majority, they had no trouble pulling dirty tricks to
stop the Republicans. Are Republicans just too nice to win in the game of
dirty politics, OR, are they just like Democrats?
So we stick by our charge of most politicians being worthless,
toothless, spineless and without honor and not just because of the Washington
State Republican Senator we took to task. He is just one politician.
The problem is, his actions are parroted by thousands of other local, state and
federal politicians, Republican or Democrat.
And corruption doesn't stop at the door of politicians.
Judges are illegally legislating from the bench. Our court system does not
dispense justice, it is legal system run amok where the "system" is king and
justice is a possible side effect. Bureaucrats are passing rule after
rule, in violation of Article I, Section 1 of the U. S. Constitution. No
one in government is following the constitution, including the judicial
branch. No one is held accountable and are essentially immune from
prosecution ….. by law. After being caught doing something wrong they
either get large bonuses from your tax money, or they are promoted, or they
retire with a huge pension.
Ladies and gentlemen, if we cannot "kill" the corruption in
politicians, judges and bureaucrats, we cannot save America. It's that
simple. We are trying to expose this corruption by going after it at the
county level, all across America, through our organization known as the
"
Exclosers". If you really want to do something about reversing the suicidal
course that America is on, click on the link "HERE."
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org), an advocate and consultant for
urban and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in
Washington State. He can be reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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