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| "I gotta get outta this place." |
When your political party is infected by Freedom Caucus Tea-Baggers, alt-right racists, and the Abominable Showman in the White House; when your old boss John Boehner isn't around to hold your hand anymore; when you actually have to govern instead of blaming everything on Obama,
what's a "traditional" corporate lackey Republican like my Congressman Pat Tiberi to do?
Quit, that's what! When the going gets tough, the tough decamp to the Ohio Business Roundtable at triple the salary. From that lucrative lobbying perch, Tiberi says he'll be better able to serve the people of Ohio -- assuming "the people" are all CEO's.
No matter who replaces him, I'm happy to see him go. He was as useless as a ham sandwich at a bar mitzvah. He touted his "working class background," but he always voted like a robber baron. In the end, he was nothing but a trickle-down tinhorn, a sadly predictable business boot-licker. (Nothing against business!)
Over the past year or so, Tiberi became known as "Flat Pat." His repeated votes to destroy Obamacare so angered his constituents that his office and town hall meetings were overrun with protesters. Pat went into hiding, and consistently refused to show up and defend his record. Some clever protesters found a lifesize cardboard cut-out of Tiberi -- Flat Pat -- and always brought it along to serve as his proxy.
I, for one, would be glad to give him a fully three-dimensional kick in the ass on his way out the door.
Good riddance!
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