After Utah Republicans booted Rep. Merrill Cook in their June primary, Republican Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, declared: "The bad news is a Republican incumbent lost." It's certainly bad news for the American people, who will be stuck paying for GOP attempts to buy additional House seats in order to maintain power.
The more closely one observes the two parties in action, the more evident it is that they behave alike. Rather like in George Orwell's novel "Animal House," the revolutionary pigs have morphed into the oppressive farmers whom they originally overthrew.
That Republicans care for little other than power is evident from Davis' tears for the erratic and temperamental Cook. And the GOP's desperate attempt to purchase votes wherever they might be found.