Can the Tea Partiers remove the slime from Washington?

John Redwood is sort of on the right track, when it comes to the breath of fresh air that the Tea Party candidates will inject into the political scenery in Washington, following the drubbing that the Dems got in the mid-term elections.

But he seems to fall for the idea that government in Washington governs for the good of the people, in general - viz:

They are split over what kind of people Americans are, and what kind of society they wish to live in.

No. The fiscally incontinent big-government incumbents know exactly what kind of people the Americans are – they just don’t care.

They care nothing about the constitution, the rule of law or what’s ‘fair’. They care only about their boondoggles – having their palms greased by the corporations who buy influence.

Washington is a racket, run by criminals. Some contend that just as the Mafia morphed into lawyers, accountants and other professional types, to go legit, so they morphed from there into the political classes and financial industry maestros, most of the morass springing from Columbia and Chicago. This seems somewhat plausible.

Regardless, the political incumbents are bent as hell, with few exceptions. The modus operandus is to buy or bully. The EU’s MO is the same, as I’m sure you’ve realised.

So, unless the new intake manages to introduce fixed term limits of 4 to 5 years per politico, they will themselves be corrupted by the slime in Washington.

After all, this type of corruption has worked for the power brokers for centuries.