Sliding.........

Here we go down the rabbit hole. Nothing is what it seems and one must wonder when the camouflages will dissolve and a glimpse of reality be seen.

Are the betting parlors taking odds on whether the senate will still be hung up by this time next week?

I listened to as much of the debating as possible, but had to spend a hunk of the day with the long commute to the Mayo Clinic for scheduled PFT's and reports. There are rebroadcasts on C-span and so I don't think I missed much.

Important little things that should be emphasized are missing, like -- when have we before had one party control of all three branches, guess I'd better google, because my memory is not that digital. Back Soon. Here's a link:http://www.prospect.org/print/V15/2/kuttner-r.html

Seems not since the days of FDR and that was before I reached voting age in 1948, then we had to be twenty-one.

So when the declaiming goes on about this 'n that, just remember that it is not oranges and oranges when comparisons are given that leave out this vital little fact. And it seems so convenient for St. Orrin to always fail to mention his blocking in committee of sixty-some nominees of President Clinton, hoping his audience will be ignorant of the facts. I have heard him at least six times as a guest on Washington Journal, use this distortion when he says that nominees have always been given an up or down vote when they reached the floor, not pointing out that he prevented six times as many from even getting there. This from a man that swears he is honest! Well, not in my book - these holier-than-thou ruses are stale now.

So to whom would you give the best marks to today for sticking to the facts and to a fair representation of history? If you don't have a clue, then start listening and listening and listening until you can decide. Don't view it as tiresome, it is our future at stake, the country's future and the future for our youth. You have a chance to impact history. Contact your senator and let him know what this means to you. I, for one, do not want one party to have absolute power, that is just dangerous as H---, and if you think corruption is bad now, wait until that happens; on second thought, do everything you can think of to keep it from happening.

Flood the White House with messages. Broach the subject with your friends and family and get them in on the action too.

If we stand on each others shoulders we can climb out of this deep dark rabbit hole.

graysmoke