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June 13, 2011
On Draining the Swamp
Topics: Political News and commentariesAs Victor Davis Hanson notes, from Spitzer to Schwarzenegger, the subtext is what's most relevant: We've created a 'Versailles-like royalty' in government, who enjoys too many perks and protocols, and confuses their exalted public profiles with some sort of inherited privilege:
The Anthony Weiner meltdown had all the congressional scandal points: the initial "how dare you suggest that" angry denial; the subsequent weepy confession of the act and the coverup, with meaningless "I take full responsibility" boilerplate; the hackneyed promise to seek "help" (for some sort of sexual-exhibitionism perversion?); and then the off-the-record phone campaign to congressional grandees to save his job as he publicly keeps up the tears and the contrived contrition. All that was missing was the dutiful, embarrassed wife at his side, made impossible in this case by her own high-visibility government career.And as Hanson goes on to aptly suggest, it would be wise in this era of Republican budget-cutting to start immediately reducing staff, travel, cars, etc., as a token of their commitment to reminding officials where they came from.
Unfortunately, the problem exists and the 'cure' applies - equally to politicians of both major parties.
Posted by Richard at June 13, 2011 11:30 AM
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