Quitting on your constituents: Jay Inslee does a Sarah Palin

"Doing a Sarah Palin" seems to have found its way into the lexicon.

From The Seattle Post Intelligencer: Quitting on your constituents: Jay Inslee does a Sarah Palin
The U.S. House of Representatives is due to spend just 109 days doing the public's business in Washington, D.C. this year. But even a schedule drawn up to grease reelection campaigns and Speaker John Boehner's golf game proved too onerous for Jay Inslee's political ambitions.

Inslee is quitting Congress in a week's time: The Democratic gubernatorial candidate is going out as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did in 2009, seeking greener pastures and leaving an important office entrusted to him by the voters.

Of course, there are differences. Inslee is seeking higher office while Palin was cashing in on a high profile. But Palin was able to hand over the reins to Alaska's Lt. Governor Sean Parnell. By dint of Inslee's timing, 600,000 people will for months have no representation in the "Peoples' House" of Congress.