People who get paid to not do their job
Name a profession where the people who refuse to do their job still get paid. I can only think of one — US congresspeople. Republicans have for years, ever since Newt Gingrich gave them the idea, refused to work with the president if he was a member of the other party. But the definition of their job is to work with the president to get things done. If they’re not going to do their job, they should be fired — just like you or I would be if we refused to do our job.
For more details on how Newt Gingrich ruined Congress, here’s Alex Seitz-Wald in The Nation from 2012:
May 13th, 2022 at 12:08 pm
Lawrence O’Donnell points out that Republican senators, including Mitch McConnell, used to believe they had a solemn responsibility…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6IORbkl71Q