The first one is by Matt Towery at Townhall.com, who ruminates on “Why More and More Politicians are Rotten to the Core”. Towery echoes a lot of things that have been on my mind during the past year, which have led me to tell many people more times than I care to remember that “There is no faith to be had in politics”.
And on the somewhat more ornery side of things, Fred Reed – the Internet’s greatest curmudgeon – waxes eloquent in his piece “What Have the Bastards Done to My Country?”....
Today’s edition of the News & Record (the big newspaper in Greensboro) has a front-page story – like most other papers across the country this morning – about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich getting arrested for corruption regarding the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama.
The headline in the News & Record reads: “Senate seat alleged for sale”
So when was the last time a Senate seat wasn’t for sale in this country?
If he did this, then Blagojevich should be thrown in, no… under the jailhouse and left to rot. But let’s get real folks: politics in the United States has become a high-stakes poker game with a buy-in that drastically exceeds the means of the average citizen. Unless you are filthy rich or otherwise have socially astute connections, you have no chance of running for high office.
Hell, it takes a fortune just to hire enough lawyers who ...