From Pig to Man, and From Man to Pig

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RedState: From Pig to Man, and From Man to Pig

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 31st, 2013 at 12:08 AM

In 2003, then just Doctor Tom Coburn, published his book. It was titled Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders. An eye witness account of the Republican Revolution of 1994 and following, journalist Robert Novak wrote the forward to the book. In his forward, Novak noted that Coburn, while serving in the Gingrich House of Representatives, realized “Speaker Gingrich, House Majority Leader Armey and the rest of the Republican leadership were not what they pretended to be. They were revolutionaries in name only, content to take possession from the Democrats of the machinery of government and then run it virtually unchanged.”

 

Coburn, in the book, wrote how Gingrich began referring derisively to “the conservatives”. Coburn wrote, “Gingrich would receive our input, but he rarely took it seriously. He usually made us feel as if we didn’t have much value because we didn’t know anything about the political game in Washington. We were from the outside and wet behind the ears in terms of politics, and we obviously didn’t know as much about history as he did.” [Emphasis added]

 

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Disappointed in this post......I thought it was about AlGoreManBearPig & Space Alien.