Purge

This morning we have but one more example of the need to purge the Republican Party leadership in Congress. Lisa Murkowski, who was appointed to her Alaskan Senate seat by her father, who had held it before her, apparently believes she has a divine right to the seat. Defeated in the Republican primary by Tea Party-backed Joe Miller, she has now decided to run as a write-in candidate. What possible justification is their for her decision? She says it's because she has heard from so many people in Alaska that she must run, but didn't the voters of Alaska just decide who they wanted as their Republican candidate? She makes this decision with full knowledge that being elected on a write-in vote is a near impossibility but could very well hurt Miller's chances in the general election. It is appalling. She's resigned her current Senate leadership positions before she could be fired from them but the Republicans in Congress should go further. She should be told that, if elected, she will not be allowed to caucus with Republicans in the next session. This will help Miller with Republican voters in the general. Lisa Murkowski is a disgrace, but her decision is illuminating to those of us sick of Washington politics; it perfectly displays the entitlement mentality held by so many in Congress, Democrat and Republican. They govern as any aristocratic elite, concerned primarily with the perpetual advancement of their own power and privilege. So blinkered are they by years of existence in the bubble of Washington D.C. they don't even realize that the peasants are in revolt.