POLITICIANS - WHAT A STRANGE BREED

Politicians are a strange breed. Threaten one by running against him or her and see how fast every little dirty trick is pulled to make you look like one the worst people who walked the earth. Just a brief study of politicians from different eras will show you that today's politician, even though they are extremely cutthroat, they don't compare to those of a hundred years ago.

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A politician will pull every dirty trick you can think of and more to stay in office. It's never really been what is good for you, but what is best for them that is until we as a whole start asking questions, then they listen. In my opinion politicians are really failed actors and actress', they have to have an audience to play to so that their ego's are boosted. The main goal is to die in office, in their minds that is the ultimate success and some do just that, die in office.

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I never shake hands with any of them. That one time I did, I never thought I would get the dirt off my hands. They are always the first to step forward with news you want to hear, but they never tell you the bad news that they buried in a bill working its way through congress. The only dance they know is the Washington Side-Step.

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But in the end we do need the little minded boogers, it just seems lately we haven't been doing to good in picking them. And some seem to just become family to us, even though we know they have passed their time to leave office, we just can't seem to vote against family. Maybe some may be put out of office because of the Cap-And-Trade they voted on or the Health Care they voted on, but I suspect it will just be a few.

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There have a few politicians that went of to Washington with all intentions of doing good deeds. Once there they soon found that the good old boy system was much stronger than their good intentions and some decided one term was enough for themselves. One new senator dared expose the backdoor dealings, making them public. Needless to say his party dropped him and he was a one term senator. You cannot get re-elected if the party doesn't contribute to your campaign.

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Speaking of party funding, the voters finally had enough of the large private donations to re-election campaigns, they wanted a change and Washington felt their pain and past news laws saying private donations could not exceed $2k. The voters were satisfied and Washington was satisfied for there was nothing in the law that stopped someone from kicking in $200k to the party with a note attached stating that the party had to use to help a politician's campaign but as a third party. In other words, it's nothing stopping a individual or organization from airing campaign ads on their own. Them little boogers are really slippery aren't they?

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Well enough of this rambling, this must read like a new bill coming out of congress, the type nobody can understand. I'll just end it here by saying, the US still has the best way of doing things and this includes our politicians, at least we can elect them, no so for some countries. My American flag will always fly at my home. Y'all have a good one.

LOW OPINION POLLS FOR CONGRESS

Polls show that people have a very low opinion of congress. Would it be safe to say that since the democrats hold a majority of the seats both houses that according to random polls democratic voters know not what they vote for?

PEOPLE AND POLITICS

Ever wonder what it might be like if there was a third party? Today we have Democrats and Republicans and the two can always find something to disagree on and almost never something to agree on. Voters are hardcore for one side or the other. You can see the conflict in all its glory at the town hall meetings over health care. Even the President has stepped into the fight with "We'll fight back even harder" or something like that. So much for the President being presidential and staying above the fray, I guess he is falling back on the old Chicago way of doing things. What did I just here "How dare I attack the president"? Of course I did, as I just said, people are hardcore loyal to one party. Just imagine if there were just five senators that did not belong to either party, but to a party of their own. Five senators that stood in the middle ground. Imagine how that would change politics as we know it today. Neither the Democrats or Republicans could pass a bill without the middle of the road five senators. No matter what party the president belongs to, it would always come down to those five senators saying ya or nay. Would it change voters attitude, maybe. Would bills that had buried in it money for a bridge to nowhere, most likely it would not have it. Wishful thinking all this.

We have all seen the polls about congress, the public has very low opinion of congress. We don't trust congress, we think they do a poor job and we say throw the bums out, but we don't. Every wonder why? It's simple really. Take Joe who lives in Ohio. According to Joe his senators are really good. According to Joe it's those stupid senators in Illinois, and those in Pennsylvania, and those in Kentucky, and all the rest of them are those that are dragging down the senate, and Joe votes for his two senators every time. But then Bill in Kentucky thinks his two senators are really good and he votes for them every time, it's those stupid senators in Ohio that are messing up things. So Bill in Kentucky, Joe in Ohio, Sally in Texas, Mike in Nevada, Joan in Idaho and so on all think the same way, our senators are really good, it's those stupid senators from the other states that are bad. So Joe, Bill, Sally, Mike, Joan and the others from the other states keep voting for their senators each time they come up for re-election. Exceptions do occur, but not enough to break the cycle. So when you go to the polls to vote for your senator remember your senator is the good one, it's all the rest that are bad and you'll feel really good about yourself.

One last thought. Pork Barrel is a just form of vote buying and it you accept the pork then are you are any better than a prostitute?

US REPRESENTATIVE REFUSES TO ANSWER

The photo at the right is that of US Representative Ben Chandler of the 6th District of Kentucky. I emailed him several times asking "What part of the house proposed health care bill precludes membership by all representatives from participating in the proposed plan in lieu of a special plan for themselves." I have not received an answer. Maybe a blog comment about the matter and a facebook comment might induce Ben to come up with a answer.

CASH FOR CARS - PAGE 2

Politicians are amazing in what they do, sometimes I think they all want to be a magician - they really know the art of slight-of-hand. Any time an elected political group, whether it be state or national government passes a spending or tax bill they never tell you want is on page 2. The case cash 4 cars is such a bill.

The 1 billion dollars that congress provided for cash-4-cars became an overnight success. Give congress a big pat on the back for that. And now congress will add another 2 billion to the program. The plus side of the bill, it gets a lot of cars off the road that eat gas in large quantities and belch out a lot of pollution not to mention it helps out the auto industry. Another plus, according to a White House spokesperson, the first billion dollars also has the effect of decreasing the amount of oil this country uses by 45,000,000 barrels a year and with 3 billion that comes to 135,000,000 barrels per year - a good deal for us.

Now what was on PAGE 2 of the Cash-4-Cars. Page 2 shows that the highway fund is broke. The highway fund gets its money from the 18.5 cents tax per gallon of gas. I'm not sure how many gallons of gas you get from a barrel of oil, so I will say that it's just 1 gallon. Doing the math that means $24,975,000 is lost for the highway fund, not good since the highway fun is already broke and the white house has floated a trial balloon on the possible increase in the federal tax on gas. Now take the $24+billion and extend out for the average life of the new cars, I would think it really gets up there in the billions. But being fair, it really gets rid of a lot of pollution.

I'm not saying the Cash-4-Cars was a bad idea or was a good idea. What I'm driving at hear is the the politicians only give us the good news, never the bad news. Wouldn't it be great if there was a law in place that mandated that our politicians give us the good news and the bad news side effects. I wonder how many spending and/or tax bills will get past then.

DARK MOVIES

The wife and I just finished watching a movie. We have a subscription with NETFLIX. When you return a movie to them, you can log onto their website and rate the movie you just returned. Well, the plot was good, the acting was good, and everything else about the movie was good, except for one thing, there was so many dark scenes in it that we couldn't tell what we were looking at. It's not the first such movie we watched, loaded to many dark scenes. Well, even though it was good movie, we still gave it 2 out of 5 for the dark scenes. What makes dark scenes even worse, darn if they don't load up the same in some of the Wii games I play, real bummer.

GOVERNMENT PRIVATE JETS

A congressional committee calls the CEO of General Motors and Chrysler for a hearing. The GM CEO flies into Washington in a company private jet. The CEO gets a good going over for using tax payer's money for using a private jet. I agree, on our behalf the government did give them billions of dollars, so yes it's tax payers money. Now I hear that congress just passed a bill for the purchase of 3 top of the line private jets for themselves. Now you could get all over congress for that, but wait. They need a private jet that can fly nonstop to any point in the world when a committee such as the one Polosi and a bunch of reps took just recently for a meeting. If they had one of the new jets then, maybe they wouldn't have had to stop of in Italy for 7 days of rest before their meeting. But what do I know, I'm just one of those fools that need something like congress to take charge of my life.