[heresie-dabord]

> We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it.

Modern US variant: we will say whatever we must to amass donations to pay for the election campaign, but you'd be a fool to bet on our doing what we should once elected.

[SoftTalker]

And yet the gripe I hear a lot about people in the US who voted for the current admin is that "they are doing what they said they would do."