Several years ago, one of the daughters of a well known Seacoast Republican Power family was told, in a fit of pique, that she was not one of CongressCritter Carol Shea-Porter’s (D-NH CD-2) constituents – simply because she was a Republican. I just don’t understand how wrong my teachers were growing up as I was always taught that EVERYONE in a district was a constituent of the hack-du-jour. Just another day in the life of a bitter Leftist, I guess.
Is this disease a communicable one amongst Democrats?
Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius responded moments ago to questions about whether she will resign in the wake of the Affordable Care Act’s problematic rollout. Her response is raising some eyebrows.
“My goal is to actually get the website up and running,” she told reporters. “The majority of people calling for me to resign I would say are people who I don’t work for and who do not want this program to work in the first place. I have had frequent conversations with the president and I have committed to him that my role is to get the program up and running and we will do just that.”
We ALL help pay her salary – she is supposed to work for us ALL. Our Republic works this way – there will ALWAYS be people who hate your policies (and perhaps, you for them). That doesn’t mean that merely for the reason of disagreeing with those policies that she doesn’t work for them as well. What is it about Democrats in this regard? Now, if she were to give a rebate from her salary and perks back to those of us that she doesn’t work for, it might be a tad more tolerable, but our Republic doesn’t work that way either.
But Government is supposed to be Accountable, and her wasting $500 million on a website that doesn’t work, well, that’s a big #FAIL. So where is the Accountability on those that work for us? When no one is reprimanded, fired, or just quit out of dishonor, what are we to think of those managing the place? Seemingly, the story is “work for government, you’re still safe”. Fast and Furious, IRS, Interior, TSA, EPA, FBI, DEA, NPS; no one, seemingly, in the Federal civilian work suffers for bad outcomes stemming from their screwups.
But is anybody else noticing how fast 2 & 3 star generals and admirals are getting cashiered out of the services? Some for cause (at least it seems that way, like at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan), but some under very suspicious circumstances and very little is being say about them.
