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Insulated Incumbents

Posted on : 16-08-2009 | By : Jim Lynch | In : Reclaim Conservatism

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Doug Ross has a great post, cross-posted at Reclaim Conservatism, that looks at rate of reelection for representatives and how that tends to insulate them from their constituency.

The federal government now consists of a body of lifetime bureaucrats, many of whom couldn’t power a flashlight with all of their brainpower combined, who are reelected automatically through their use of federal tax funds. They reward, they punish, they anoint.

I encourage you to go look at this post, and leave your comments there.

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