[davidboyd] David: Fool me once. Shame on. Shame on you. Fool me. Can't get fooled again.

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Posted by David:
Fool me once.  Shame on.  Shame on you.  Fool me.  Can't get fooled again.
http://davidboyd.org/posts/1144696819.shtml


   [1]Fund:

     From their scramble to ram through a national legislative solution
     to Terri Schiavo's plight, to their overreaction to Hurricane
     Katrina, to their failure to recognize the public's disgust with
     pork-barrel projects, to the Dubai Ports deal, Republicans have
     appeared to the world to be as unprincipled and rudderless as the
     politicians they campaigned against back in 1994.

   I've been thinking about this for a while now. Why would Republicans
   morph into the very thing they ran against in '94?
   Here's the answer - distilled for easier consumption - politics as
   career choice. Viewed from this prism everything makes sense. If your
   goal is to stay employed in Congress for twenty something years, your
   behavior is likely to take a different tack than if you are there to
   advocate a certain set of principles. This tack is also likely to be
   convergent with other politicians whose goal is, like yours, to
   maintain position on the federal teat.
   [2]Title origin.

References

   1. http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110008210
   2. http://bushwillnotbefooled.ytmnd.com/