Who's the boss?

Just a couple of examples of tails wagging dogs from this week...

Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill. (who is already on the record for supporting the Ryan "Kill Medicare" Budget) says Scott Brown "should be ashamed of himself" for playing politics and saying he would not support the Ryan plan.  He also says "Any Republican that doesn’t vote for this or doesn’t support this is purely being guided by political reasons."...guided by political reasons, as in doing something that will help get them re-elected, as in pleasing their constituencies, as in the taxpayers they were put there to represent and who pay their salaries...how is that bad?

Also, on Meet the Press this past Sunday, Paul Ryan made a comment that struck me as concerning (although doesn't seem to be worrying anyone else, so maybe it's just me) - "I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be. Leaders change the polls." So it's perfectly okay for a U.S. Congressman to say out loud that he's ignoring what the American people want because they don't know what they want, that "leaders" are there to tell them what they want?


So I have to ask...Who do you work for again??