I like Tom Davis (retired Republican Senator of VA). He is a champion of progress - a known problem solver. He has been reaching across the aisle for more than 14 years. He's also hugely popular - in all camps. So, why is he voluntarily resigning? Read the attached article - it offers some fantastic insight into the state of our elected officials. Here are some highlights:
- “If we (congress) were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf. We’re just not getting much done.”
- “Nobody keeps an eye on anything unless it hurts the other party. When you get the majority (seat), the leadership team sits around the table, and the first question the winners ask is, ‘How do we stay in the majority? And the minority sits in a little less ornate room and they say, ‘How do we get it back?’ And so for every issue it’s (asked) ‘Do we cooperate or do we try to embarrass them?’ Very few times they cooperate.”
- “The fiscal thing is awful. When you’re running $300, $400 billion a year in debt every single year and nobody wants to face the issue, the time is coming pretty soon where it’s going to have a huge effect on things.”
- “The party leadership has signaled that since I was not a hard-core social conservative, any advancement was going to be over them, not with them.”
- “I can step back in it if I want — if they’re looking for a problem solver. But right now, neither party is looking for that."
