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Political careers don't end. People just stop being "politicians" and start being "consultants" or "board members".

• saraid216 13y ago
  That's like saying your career as a web developer ended, but at least you're still a web designer at another company in another field. It misses the point that the project you championed for five years because it provided real value to real customers just got scrapped and tossed just to make sure none of your taint is left upon it, and half the people you helped hire in order to make it a high quality product got fired because they didn't spend enough time kissing ass rather than shipping code and you were covering for their occasional, warranted antagonism. I honestly don't give a fuck about politicians' after-careers. You failed to lynch them. Fine. We don't do seppuku in this country. Fine. No, I care, for instance, that Obama had to burn down his entire capacity to move and shake politically just to get a half-assed piece of healthcare reform into effect, and that it very well may have failed if Snowden had happened three years earlier.
  • detcader 13y ago
    I think you missed my point.. also, individual politicians represent their respective districts, I would sure hope that people in a democratic society worry about them
    • harywilke 13y ago
      With current reelection rates over 80% in congress for the last fifty years [1], one wonders if they have any need to represent their districts at all. http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/reelect.php http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/reelect.php