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MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2003

"Living and working in the pressure cooker known as Washington, D.C,. can be a life-changing event. You won't meet many people who claim the city as their own. Everyone there is from somewhere else, and their career path has just brought them to D.C. for the time being. It's a temporary job on the way up to something better.

I've been there on several occasions, the most recent trip being in February. I've noticed for many years that the prevailing attitude in our nation's capital is that D.C. believes, sincerely believes, that it knows what's best for the rest of the country.

And once you get there, it's easier to go along with that attitude than rock the boat. When in Rome … do as the Romans do. What's even more discomforting is the fact that the Bush administration has brought an in-your-face type of mockery and arrogance that has been breeding for the past couple of decades in American political circles, a self-assured kind of conceit that is totally opposite of what serving the people should be all about - a me-first attitude straight from frat and sorority houses across the country."

Get the Story:
Harlan McKosato: BIA is Still Bossing Indians Around From Insular D.C. (The Santa Fe New Mexican 6/15)

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