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January 13, 2006
Reformation
I'm certainly on board with this statement. (Thanks to Bat1 for bringing it to my attention.) I do not think that governmental corruption is the biggest problem we face, but it is a persistent drag on the government and economy, without which solving the bigger problems would be much easier. One irony is, it's such an easy problem to end: representatives simply have to remember that the interests that lobby them are indirect representatives of a voter block, while the representatives are direct representatives of a segment of the population that includes the one voter block most important to them, their constituents, and act accordingly. Another irony is that campaign finance reform makes the openness and transparency necessary to good governance harder, rather than easier, to accomplish.
So, yes, I would like to see the Republicans clean their own house first. Being generally supportive of the Republicans, in no small part because of the anti-corruption efforts of the Republicans near the end of the Democrats' decades-long malgovernance, I believe it is critical that they uphold a high moral standard. I also believe that it's important to hold Democrat lawmakers to a high moral standard, but frankly being from Texas, none of them represent me.
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Jeff, thank you for both your post here and your comment at Bear's original post.
Certainly this is not the biggest problem we face as a nation, nor the most pressing. But it is of vital importance that at least one of our major political parties not only expresses the principles on which our nation was founded and our civilization now rests, but actually behaves like they believe what they preach as well. And clearly that ain't gonna be the Democrats.
What's remarkable is the speed with which this has spread, witness the comments appended to Bear's post along with yours and mine. And it is those comments which will ultimately force the changes necessary in the House GOP leadership. Regards,
Bat One
Posted by: Bat One at January 13, 2006 7:49 PM