Send Em ALL Out to Pasture

7-27-2023

Send Em ALL Out to Pasture

I firmly believe it’s on the voter who goes to Washington and it’s on the voter who keeps these “Homestead Politicians” in office, but more importantly it’s on the elected official who after a taste of power refuses to let go. I really don’t follow politics as closely as I used to and I’ve written blogs about elected officials who never give up their “remote” control.

In the news lately are three examples of politicians who’ve spent their entire adult life working as “public servants” in Congress and are well past going to a retirement home where they can play bingo and/or watch old westerns on television.

The first and most prominent figure is President Joe Biden who’s only notable job outside of congress was a failed business venture as a lawyer. Once JB went to Washington he never left, except to follow a fellow and very junior Senator into the White House in 2009 and after a 4 year hiatus, JB re-emerged as the Democratic front runner and totally unexpected occupant of the White House against DJT. Need I say more? I think not. The second is lifetime Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein of California whose cognitive skills in office are showing the need for her to leave office and politics altogether. The third is lifetime Republican Senator Mitch McConnell who also is showing signs of aging that could leave a dark stain his political legacy.  

They are not the only ones either. Out of 535 congressional seats there are a number of other Senators and Representatives who truly need to leave office. I don’t mean retire either. I mean there should never be a career field called Public Service. Politicians are answerable to their constituents and should be held fully accountable for their actions representing American citizens and/or the states in which they were elected. If being a Public Servant truly were a job, so many elected officials should have been fired a long time ago.

And then there are those political hot shots that after being elected grab the headlines but have no idea how to help the voters who elected them. Their gift is personal and financial gratification and once they are gone they fade away faster than a hot red car in the Colorado sun.

Back in the olden days old mares and old studs were turned out to pasture, spending their final days lazing and grazing their final days, while young heifers and wild studs often ended up sold, traded or passed on to the glue factory. – RTM

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