A Rumination Of Right And Wrong

A subject near and dear to my heart, lately. The topic deserves some discussion.

The entire currently elected political body should be run out of office. That's from the president on down to the last representative, probably down to your local dogcatcher. Obviously, the entire system is corrupt. Even the guys like Ron Paul who have supposedly been doing the right thing all these years need to go. Why? Because they're ineffective.

Once they're gone, we start replacing our elected officials with regular people. Farmers, ranchers, business heads, PTA moms, etc. In other words, people who know what it's like to work for a living. Have each of them vote to apply two term limits to every elected official at the Federal level. Professional politicians have gotten us in this mess, and it's time to clean house.

This stuff with Congressman Foley, for instance. There's a few things that need to happen. First, he should resign. Second, he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, after an investigation telling us just exactly what the piece of crap did while in office. I'm thinking that somewhere along the way more fire will turn up amidst the smoke. Third, whoever else gets smoked out in the investigation needs to face appropriate punishment.

Why say something like this? Because every person on both sides of the political spectrum should be calling to hang Foley, if there's sufficient evidence. What we have is political maneuvering, at this point. That drives me nuts. Tony Snow came out today and had the audacity to say we shouldn't be making such a big deal about what he termed are, "naughty emails."

Tony, you've officially sold out. I'll go so far as to say he'll never work with any sort of respect in the talk radio circuit again. I won't listen to him any more. And by downplaying this stuff, he's complicit in it.

Blame goes to the demoncrats here as well. Why wait for years to pull this one out? Why wait until an election? Why does Bob Woodward wait to publish a book that damages Bush on the Iraq war? Simple. It's a power play.

None of those sorry dogs in Washington care about us once they are elected. They show some concern again when they try to get re-elected, but otherwise the game is political power up there. It's obvious they'll use every dirty trick in the book to get it. We have only to look at the border issue, the war on terror, and this Foley stuff to see how bad it's gotten. George Allen's senate race is another great example.

So the solution is to limit how much power these morons can have. Prevent them from getting to be lifers, like that fat gasbag Kennedy. Get 'em out. We won't get these stupid, constraining laws if we put people who actually work for a living in office. If they have to go back to work and live with the laws they pass, they'll be a bit more selective about creating new legislation.

Hold them accountable. If somebody pulls something like what Foley has done, the punishment needs to be worse than what an ordinary citizen would face. They deserve it, because they've breached our trust.

Instead, we have politics played. Instead of taking out this monster when they all could have years ago, they've played politics with a pedophile. They've endangered our children because of it. It's both sides that are doing this.

Why the vehemence in this post this evening? Let's just say that I'm realizing more and more that when principles get sacrificed for any purpose; be it money, politics, or whatever, it's a pathway towards evil. It can't be allowed to happen.

I'll soon be a father. And the world my little boy is going to come out in scares the fire out of me. We've got Muslims lining up to kill us. We've got idiots in our own country that think socialism is a nifty idea. We've got pedophiles loose in the streets, and loose within our highest elected offices. Their fellows rally around them, when they should be lynching the sorry dog. We've got the people who were elected to protect us selling us out. It's wrong; pure and simple.

Whatever reason our politicians come up with to justify selling us out is simply the beginning of a slide in morality. And we can't tolerate it any more. So it's time to run these bums out, and replace them with people who aren't afraid to do the right thing. Further, they need to be limited in terms of the amount of damage they can do while in office.

It's a question of right and wrong. I am now more convinced than ever that allowing just a bit of evil to get a foothold opens the door for much more to follow. That's in our jobs. In our politics. In cutting off somebody in traffic.

More on this as the week goes on....