With all due respect to the man who proclaimed that "all politics is local," the Tipster got it wrong.



For more than a generation, American's have accepted Speaker O'Neill's folksy wisdom as a guiding principle. After all, it's local office impact that matters most, right?

Not quite. Because by jumping on the "all politics is local" bandwagon, progressives unwittingly buy into core Republican values: greed and selfishness. And in doing so, a game that is rigged from the outset to pit good people against one another. Thus corporate whores like Robin Hayes, Charles Taylor, Sue Myrick, and Virginia Foxx spend their careers slopping at the trough of government spending to bring home the bacon.

'Looka what I'm doing fo' my distric',' they say, slamming public spending on one hand while selling their votes to fund some highway contractor so they can brag about how hard they're working for their constituents.

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