Many of the incumbents are second rate:

Dennis Hastert,Curt Weldon, Tom Reynolds, Rick Santorum. Would you hire any one of these people? Would you let them run your business?

Are you kidding?

These guys are miserable legislators and more interested in petty bickering than doing their jobs. They aren’t fit to hold Bob Dole’s pen, much less shine Howard Baker’s shoes. You may have found many of Barry Goldwater’s stand odious, but when it came to character, there was no question. The Republicans who sat in the House and Senate before 2000 were men and women who understood their duty to the country.

Even middleweight hacks like Dick Armey and Phil Gramm were people who took government seriously.

But these guys don’t and it’s clear. They have placed party above country to the detriment of both. And people know it. They know that party has been placed above country or even decency. I haven’t written much about the Military Commissions Act because I believe that most of it will be tossed in the garbage can in the first court it hits.

The shameful fact is so much that it passed, and that IS shameful, but that no one in the GOP was serious enough to oppose it. Because it is wrong, it is wrong for our country and wrong for our values. And a Congress of men and women who cared for their country would have stood up to Bush, if they were more than Rotary Club hacks and synchophants to the White House.

So when you get a Joe Sestak or a Jim Webb running, a former carrier battle group commander, and a Navy Cross winner, the character gap is clear and obvious. You wouldn’t trust Curt Weldon with a latrine. You couldn’t trust George Allen not to burn a cross on your lawn and laugh. – Steve Gilliard/

I think Castle once took government seriously. Not now.