What is “pure politics”? It’s when being in power matters more than anything else, and the means don’t matter as long as you get the ends you want. That pretty well describes the content of Paul Begala’s latest op ed piece on CNN.com. His agenda is not one of “The GOP is hurting this country and we need…
Pure Politics
There’s politics and then there’s pure politics. You can’t change the country for the better without getting involved in the political system. That’s politics. But when you get so involved in the system that you lose sight of anything else and see the entire world in terms of politics, then that’s pure politics, and it’s what the Constitution was designed to put restraints on.
