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Self-Serving Politicking

By Sam Batkins
Thursday, June 18 2009

Any observer of the Washington political scene surely recognizes the power-brokering, backroom deals, and partisan talking points off of which our nation’s capital feeds. Are the days of the citizen-legislator over? We are far removed from Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote, “I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.” Jefferson, of course, understood that politicians derive their power from “the consent of the governed,” not from any presumption of power or entitlement…

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