Rent seeking GOP style

Most of the Dems are hopeless statist centralizers who see nothing really wrong with helping their rent seeking friends.  About half the Republicans are - it's a massive supermajority for the Federal Stupor State to continue to shamble along.  Because if we broke it all up, these cats wouldn't be big wheels.  In the meantime we get crooked behavior like this:  HT Instapundit.coom

WHEN GOP LEGISLATORS USE STATE POWER TO PROTECT CRONIES: Three Congressmen Are Using Red Tape to Bind SpaceX to Earth. “Hey, remember Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the guy who threw needless layers of bureaucracy at SpaceX because the private space company was doing its job of launching rockets into space a little too well? Well, it looks like he’s being joined by gentlemen from the other side of the Capitol: Three congressmen are trying to do the same thing. . . . Three House members—Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)—have sent a memo to NASA demanding that the agency investigate what they call ‘an epidemic of anomalies’ with SpaceX missions. . . . I’ll note that Boeing (the major SLS contractor) has a big plant in Alabama, Brooks’ (and Shelby’s) home state, and United Launch Alliance has its HQ in Colorado, home to Gardner and Coffman (it’s even in Coffman’s district). This sounds more like they’re trying to protect their own turf more than honestly wanting transparency from SpaceX.”