Far Out! Tea Party Time

"M'  This song popped into my head at breakfast.  I hear there's a revival of this show on Broadway.  Anyway it's four more months till the primary.  I'll be ready.... just you wait and see.  You know that  book by some future President I told you I was starting, I'm making notes already. ....

"It is an interesting fact that so many of (the author's) instances show us a parliamentary leader proclaiming his independence of his erring constituency." 


                                                                                

For anyone fortunate enough to wander to Stein for Governor, p. 40 or 50 something this is from the same book where the author quoted a contemporary of his who twice won Pulitzer in the late 50's- early 60's.  I think these sentiments sometimes applies right here in the 2nd district concerning our congressman and many of his and my fellow constituents.

With exceptions so rare they are regarded as miracles of nature, successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men.  They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding threatening elements in their constituencies.  The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular- not whether it will work well and prove itself, but whether the active-talking constituents like it immediately.  Walter Lippmann