Be passionate about using power, not retaining it

“The real House GOP problem isn’t about lobbyists so much as it is the atrophying of its principles,” The Wall Street Journal wrote in an editorial Monday applauding Rep. Tom DeLay’s decision not to seek to return as majority leader but dismissing House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s sudden interest in lobbying reform. “As their years in power have stretched on, House Republicans have become more passionate about retaining power than in using that power to change or limit the federal government.”
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

4 Comments

  1. J M Walker
    Posted January 10, 2006 at 6:10 am | Permalink

    Exactly: The same thing that brought the Republicans into power are going to force them out. How little things change. Think either party will learn from this? Pssst . . . I got a bridge I’ll sell you.

  2. mrcontroversy
    Posted January 10, 2006 at 10:45 am | Permalink

    Concur, J M.The sad thing I’ve learned in the past five years is that inside the beltway, it’s not about party or principles, it’s all about the Benjamins.

  3. Ed Friedemann
    Posted January 10, 2006 at 11:03 am | Permalink

    It’s so much fun to watch the anti-American Wall Street Jdate Journal sweat like a pig.

    “Speaker Dennis Hastert’s response this weekend was to issue a press release declaring his sudden passion for “lobbying reform.” The Speaker says he wants these “important reforms ready as soon as possible,” never mind that they are so important he’d never mentioned them before.

    The “lobby” they’re sweating is of course their precious AIPAC. And these wizards of journalism offer-up the reasoning that Dennis Hastert hasn’t mentioned kicking AIPAC’s tush all the way back to the promised land before, as a reason why he shouldn’t be doing it now. Oh, do so sweat until I smell that bacon you won’t eat, sizzle and smoking so maple-like { see, this way Dennis can catch AIPAC in his sweeping cast-of-the-net of lobbying reform, and that’s why they’re crying foul }.

    Did your “buddies” Krauthammer and Lieberman help you write these ham-handed utterings ?

  4. Ed Friedemann
    Posted January 10, 2006 at 2:11 pm | Permalink

    How Israel makes “terrorists” day after day, year after year.

    http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/668510.html