Can Washington Catch a Break? – The Post
A rebuttal to the quadrennial tradition of bashing the Capital while desperately begging for a job there:
Yes, we know they’re talking about the political side, but it’s still agitating to hear disparaging comments grouped nominally under the city as a whole. And this goes beyond presidential campaigns to every congressional district in the United States, where candidates seek to assure people that they’re not a part of Washington, but they want to work there, hold their nose and maybe freshen it up.
“It’s kind of comical, because people fight, connive and scheme to get to a place they profess to hate, and then they fight, connive and scheme to stay in the place they profess to hate,” says Democratic strategist James Carville, who maintains a home in Alexandria.
By the way, if you live somewhere that ends people like Bud Shuster, Robert Byrd or many others to Congress, you have no credibility on bashing Washington.
