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The Majority Leader says the Post story has generated enough smoke to warrant a hearing. This is the third time this month the leader has smelled imaginary smoke and pulled our fire alarm.

By a quick show of hands how many of you believe these proceedings to be a waste of our time and taxpayer money.  … Once again, we are divided along party lines.

If conclusion jumping was an Olympic sport. This chamber would be filled with gold medal winners and most of the record holders would be on one side of the aisle.

The woman in the Post photos is me.

Before you jump again, Senator Jones is a Democrat, and I am a Republican. We are not having an affair. The President asked us, as members of the intelligence committee, to take a meeting with twelve of our European counterparts, at the Waldorf hotel, and report back to him.

Every time we vote along party lines, we show our party leaders that we are obedient foot soldiers who deserve the party’s backing in the next primary. Then we try to justify our actions by pretending politics is a team sport.

We build our teams by separating Americans from one another. We use lies and people’s feelings to divide them by race, sex, religion, wealth, and age. We ignore individual voters in favor of voter groups.

Why do we do it? Because it works. That is how elections are won. That is how we acquire power and a great lifestyle. We could place term limits on congressional office holders, but we will not. That would be equivalent to losing an election.

Our constituents will eventually realize they have more in common with one another than they have with us, their overbearing leaders. When they do, they will tear our political party structures apart, destroy our party hierarchies, and kick us off this gravy train.

The US Constitution gives the US government its power, and it gives the American citizens the right to choose the people worthy of wielding that power.  The flow of power is supposed to be upward from the people to the government.

At some point in our country’s brief history the voters lost control of the government. Its power was split in two and its direction reversed.  The flow is now downward from Government leaders to the people.  Ask any candidate running for office. They will tell you it is nearly impossible to win without the backing of one of the two parties. The higher the office the greater the need for their support.

We tell the American people we are fighting for them. What they see is us mercilessly attacking one another. We talk about the great statesmen and orators that preceded us. We show them we are not worthy replacements. They watched us use the public treasury like it was our private piggy bank. They have heard us make promises we know we cannot keep. They have seen us slithering through these hallowed halls offering apples to the innocent. They know what we are and they don’t like us very much.

Our national party committees stand on the shoulders of our state committees and they on the county committees, we are all balanced on the shoulders of the local committees. When political parties in America lose the support of their local committees they collapse.

Remember the good old days when we were able to hide our transgressions from the voters? Thanks to technology, those days are gone forever.

It won’t be long before small towns and neighborhoods begin electing only honest and honorable people to local committees and offices. These new leaders will be held to higher standards, term limits and easy recall.

Once voters experience having power over their local officials, they will demand loyalty from and control over those seeking higher offices.

That will be the start of a quiet revolution to restore the flow of power from the people to their leaders, and the end of our control over the voters.”