At Veterans Affairs, Another Hopelessly Amateur Screw-Up
This is a Congress with no sense of their routine work or collective responsibilities. If they are the ultimate result of Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America, then they should (at the very least) be sued for breach of contract. They are a wild-eyed collection of elected legislators so tied in knots over the partisanship of their every move that they’ve forgotten what the meaning of election is all about.
Not the coming election, or the fear of mid-term elections, or the panic over the next election down the calendar. Those they must breathlessly prepare for (fundraising) and finance (fundraising) and lie for (at fundraisers) and, if necessary, steal for (if the money doesn't come in). No, I mean the election that initially sent them to Washington, full of high hopes and avarice, presumably to at least minimally represent the interests of their constituents.
‘Interests’ and ‘constituents’ are bloodless descriptions of mothers with sick kids and soldiers just back from the latest war an…