RedStae head Erick Erickson has a reminder for the soon-to-be-freshmen Congresscritters and Senators that, while focused on them, is also a very good read for those about to be sent to Madison, St. Paul and Frankfort:
When you get to Washington you will be told you need a professional staff of lobbyists, careerists, etc. to help guide you. You will be told that “you just don’t understand” or “you are naive” or “the School House Rock version of how a bill becomes a law is too simplified for the real world.”
The people telling you this are the people the voters hate and you should not trust. Largely they will be people in leadership, particularly staffers, who will soon depart for K Street where they hope to profit off their relationship with you. They will work with people like Trent Lott to try to co-opt you.
Fight.
Fight them.
Fight the idea that you must yield to their ways instead of them yielding to your ways. You, after all, have not been driven from power like these men have….
If you fight them you will be rewarded. If you succumb, the tea party will come for you in just a few short years.
What Erickson doesn’t give is a warning to Boehner and McConnell. I hope these men understand this is the last chance for Republicans. If they turn out to just be another variation of Obama’s “I know better than you”, they will never again have a majority. In fact, a third party will come to life so fast they’ll wish they had the popularity of Obama.
Erick has given warnings to those two in the past, so he’s done with them (except to get them out of Congress at the appropriate times). In fact, he points out that Boehner’s chief of staff stripped support for marriage (the original kind) out of the GOP Pledge and says to not trust either Boehner or McConnell.
How many last chances do Republicans give Republicans?
60 years’ worth fewer than last chances to Democrats given to Democrats.
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