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People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.
We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.
Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even when crass and crude. That's just the way it is.
If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
Elected officials want to paint everyone with a broad brush. What they don't get is that everyone pays bills. Liberal activists pay bills. Conservative activists pay bills. Independents pay bills.
We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.
I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.
Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.
