Can the D.C Swamp be drained?

Google “The Swamp” and you’ll initially find many references to a 2000 documentary film about the corrupt political culture indigenous to today’s Washington DC.

D.C. wasn’t always a thoroughly Swampish environment.

Today’s D.C. Swamp takes care of its own, regardless of political affiliations

After leaving the White House, President Truman and his wife moved into his mother-in-law’s house in Independence, Missouri. Harry wasn’t rich. In 1953, there was little financial support for former presidents, and Congressional pensions were not approved until 1946, so he received no pension for his Senate service.

In September 1940, Texas House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn became Speaker of the House and remained in that position throughout America’s involvement in World War II. When he retired from government service, he moved into the modest wood frame home in Bonham, Texas where his two sisters lived. The house, now a museum, remains just as when he lived there. Members of congress and citizens of his hometown bought him a car. Upon his death, Rayburn’s estate was valued at about $300,000, mostly land he owned, and he had about $26K in the bank.

D.C. has dramatically changed since then. Money now flows to former Presidents (except Trump , who was already independently wealthy) and lucrative business opportunities are often available to retiring members of Congress.

Today’s D.C. Swamp takes care of its own, regardless of political affiliations.

Left in D.C. knows that Trump will likely go about forming an Executive staff that will not be so likely to conform to Swampish behavior

When Donald Trump became President in 2016, he promised to “Drain the Swamp.” He tried and failed. Operationally, he was only able to trim off some of the surface sludge. But it grew back.

More than a few of his appointments of government officials to senior levels were ill-advised. It’s still a long list.

After leaving office, some wrote “tell-all” books that were critical of Trump’s political leadership. Instead of replacing D.C. Swamp creatures he fired, he appointed others that eventually conformed to what the Swamp required from its inhabitants. For more than a few, it was Go-along-to-get-along, and later write a critical tell-all book.

Today, the political Left in D.C. knows that if Trump is re-elected, he’ll likely go about forming an Executive staff that will not be so likely to conform to Swampish behavior.

That possibility has to be an existential concern to more than a few, and, therefore, it begs this question.

Is there anything the D.C. Swamp creatures, in-and-out of government, are unwilling to do to protect their lucrative environment from Trump?

Lee Cary——Bio and Archives Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam assigned to the [strong]Phoenix Program[/strong]. He lives in Texas.