Almost three months after a huge defeat in the primary former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he will be working for Moelis a large Investment Bank following the footsteps of many politicians before him using there political power to enrich themselves after politics.
So far more than 30 Republican congressman and senators have announced they will be retiring by early 2019. Trey Gowdy being the most recent. Now I must say Trey Gowdy retiring is almost worth a party, but the latest conspiracy theories by GOP congressman like Ron Johnson Trey Gowdy, and Devin Nunes are such an obvious ploy to cover the rear end of Donald J Trump. I would even go further and say Nunes and others see what's coming and are attempting a political coup d'etat by showing the American people a Smokescreen memo in which they have not even seen the underlying material.
But, let's get back to the main point. Right after the tax bill was passed Charles and Elizabeth Koch gave Paul Ryan almost $500,000. Our politics have become so corrupted by money the line between corruption, bribery, and campaign contributions has become blurred.
It will be very interesting to see after all these retirements the high paying jobs these lawmakers will take. If history tells us anything most will head into high-paying stints in the financial and lobbying industries.
My opinion
To any GOP politician retiring I say good riddance. The party of Donald Trump, Roy Moore, and the members of the radical Freedom caucus has gone off the rails.
More importantly we must get big money out of politics. For, until we do the only constituents in this nation will be major corporations and the super rich. This is not only a republican issue. We begin to see in 1992 with the election of Bill Clinton Democrat and Wall Street collusion. If I may borrow a relevant word of the day.
And, then they give us Hillary Clinton. My God the Democratic party is out of touch with the American people and this is clearly how Donald Trump became president. I have heard from people that were supporters of Bernie Sanders that voted for Donald Trump. That is an indictment on the Democratic Party and their corporate agenda.
A man that sits on gold-plated toilets got poor and uneducated working-class whites to relate to him and his us versus them rhetoric and ideology were ripe for the taking.
The Bottom Lines
Corporations are people our Supremes Court says. What were they smoking that day? If a corporation is a person it is by mandate a clinical sociopath. We have created a bunch of sociopaths that have created a system where there will never be enough and for decades have, through media and now shiny hypnotic screens, convinced us to fight for the very system that keeps the majority barely alive with a "trickle down" IV bag of welfare. The inequality is already to the point there should be pitchforks, but no one wants to put down there phone.
Rev JE Allen
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