If you have heard this before, please stop me.
Your state legislator has a term limit. You have chosen a conservative who you think is very reliable. Most of the time, vote in the right way and say a lot of right things. Yes, they are not perfect. In fact, they may have only recently switched to the Republican Party (if that is the case, you are likely to be in the South). However, you still like this person.
Well, when the last semester comes, you will notice something. The votes are not as conservative as before. Rhetoric is not as dogmatic as you remember. Politicians now do what they think is right, not what you voted for them to do.
Fun fact: The right things and the things you want them to do are not always consistent. In fact, the longer this person is in office, the less united they will be.
Soon, the politician turned everyone who voted for him or her into a conservative. There is little left in terms of alignment. They have accepted their true nature. They either decide to become a full-fledged Democrat or become a completely omniscient person who thinks you just don’t know what’s good for you.
(Note: This is a Venn diagram with great overlap.)
This is Bill Cassidy at the federal level. He ran for the Senate in 2014, but his career in the House of Representatives was not outstanding. The culmination of his career was defeating current Senator Mary Landrieu in the second midterm of Obama’s term, helping to shift the balance of the Senate away from the Democrats.
When Cassidy first campaigned, there were rumors that he had only participated in two semesters before he could finish it. This makes sense. By the time he runs again, he will be close to 70 years old. As many people pointed out in their comments to him, he was a Democrat until the early 2000s and then transferred to the party, which was an expedient measure at the time.
I can go on, but you get the idea.
Cassidy has been defending the bipartisan infrastructure bill for anyone willing to listen, and even has a long discussion about the bill on Twitter. But the problem is that people are actually reading it. They now knew what was in it, and no matter what he said, it proved him wrong.
In Louisiana, Scott McKay is Hay cartAnd have This to say About the senator on Monday.
In any case, the way these infrastructure bills should work is that they should be block grants to states to supplement their capital expenditure plans. The states understand their infrastructure needs better than the federal government. If the states steal the entire grant, then this is the purpose of the Department of Justice. If you wish, you can ask the state legislature to send a request in writing to address their needs in the lump sum grant and accept an audit of the expenditure.
On the contrary, it’s all top-down. As we have seen, Give Cassidy a chance to scream Regarding all the projects he received funding under the Infrastructure Act.
But you won’t hear him complaining that he let us swallow all the terrible rubbish so that we can have the money to build a new bridge in Baton Rouge or go south from Lafayette to I-49 in the estuary country.
Bill Cassidy is a RINO or he is sold out, which is not so much what it is, as it is, although we are far from arguing that he is not those things. Even after so many years in public office, he still doesn’t understand why voters sent him to Washington, DC in the first place.
A state like Louisiana, which supports the Republican Party at 60%, is looking for a powerful voice that will not fall for the stupidity that the bill represents. Not the weak who are turned over and behave as if they have done something.
It’s not that Cassidy is a RINO or a secret Democrat, really. He was just to prove that he knew better than his voters what the right decision was. In business, some people say that customers are always right. In politics, most elected officials forget that voters are always right. They should vote for the benefit of voters in Washington, DC. Although Louisiana’s $6 billion is great, the compound effect of all these additional federal expenditures and inflation will hurt voters far more than the extension of the interstate highway. One of the metropolitan areas.
Cassidy was so convinced that he was right, that he made a stupid mistake.He put on a blindfold, focused only on rewards for Louisiana, and was getting Completely ruined Any Actually read the bill.
When asked about that part of the bill, “the term’user fee per mile'” refers to a revenue mechanism that applies to road users who operate motor vehicles on ground transportation systems; and is based on vehicles driven by individual road users Mileage,” Cassidy told KEEL, that part of the bill was not included.
“It’s not there,” Cassidy said, insisting that Air Canada Flight 13002 Doesn’t exist, “That’s not there.”
However, when the exact content of the bill was read to him, the senator seemed to change his attitude. “There is that part. That’s not the part I wrote. But I assure you that there is no assessment of usage fees,” Cassidy went on, “I assure you that there is no assessment of usage fees. It’s the pilots. They might ride in the Federation. The government vehicle, we want to see how it works.”
This is Cassidy, who ran as a pro-Trump candidate in 2020 and immediately turned around and voted to impeach Trump after the riots in the Capitol on January 6. He is not an inflammatory conservative, and he has never been. He reached the top when he defeated a traditional Democrat seven years ago, and now he is on his way out.
The only surprise, really, is that he will decide to ignite his voters early in his final term. I think we have a few years before he goes that way.
