36 Years Too Late

Carter Wrenn posted on July 03, 2012 16:37

Venerated Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, who is seventy-eight years old, just faced his first primary in three decades – a Tea Party opponent ran against him who said Washington could do with one less politician who’d spent years voting for more debt and more spending.

Senator Hatch weathered the storm but, then, after the primary made a peculiar announcement: He announced he is now ready to tackle the tough problems in Washington – like the debt and Social Security and Medicaid. “This is my last term,” he said. “I’m ready to bite the bullet.”

So: After thirty-six years in Congress Senator Hatch is going to work.

And that’s how Washington politics works.

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# dap916

Tuesday, July 03, 2012 5:46 PM

What you've posted here amplifies the problems that have plagued D.C. for decades...maybe longer. Politicians that get into office and become ingrained into the "system" there with their "contacts" and cronies and so forth lose focus about why they ran for office in the first place and who is important. They become self-serving in very short order once elected. Gotta kow-tow to the "senior" members...to the lobbyists who decide their future electoral fate through monetary donations. They come back into their districts in an ever-decreasing level as their name recognition pulls them through each and every election period.

And, who loses? Americans....no, better put, AMERICA. We've lost the America of my father and his father and his father. I fear for my country that I went to war for and that so many lost their lives for. Today, it's just all about being self-serving. Hatch should have retired and let a younger, more dedicated person take his place. But, he decided he needed one more term and that means that now...only because he doesn't have to run again...he can make the hard choices he should have been making all these years he's been nothing but a pawn.

Okay...my rant is over.

36 Years Too Late

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