As it is, the distinct lack of leadership within the GOP, in the bottom line, may cost them the White House in 2008. What’s so astounding is the apparent complete cluelessness exhibited by the GOP members of Congress when it comes to actually listening to and paying attention to the message being sent by their Conservative constituents. It takes a massive uprising, as happened in the case of amnesty for illegal immigrants, to get their attention.

Somewhere along the way a disconnect occurred between politicians and the hard working people who elect them and pay their salaries. The politicians get elected by people because they appear to most closely represent their constituents’ philosophies when it comes to running the government. But once Inside The Beltway Syndrome strikes, most of those politicians transform into elitist monsters who think that they were elected to run government according to their own (ahem) sophisticated knowledge of how the country/world works, voters be damned.

Otherwise, why would these Washington Weenies keep resubmitting legislation covering issues so vociferously protested by the voting public, such as amnesty and SChip for the middle class?

It just makes my blood boils, sometimes, and makes me wonder if it isn’t time to relocate the center of the political universe in this country, away from the Washington DC elitist partying crowd.