Today in North Dakota the Democrat Heidi Heidkamp announced she is going to run for the U. S. Senate. Already last week the Republicans expressed their fear of that and ran full page ads telling us why she was so terrible. So it goes. The talking heads on national news keep conjecturing who might be the Republican presidential candidate. One week it's this one, the next that one. The elections are still over a year away and here we are, being fed a heavy diet of propaganda from all sides. When I was old enough to start being interested in things of this nature I remember reading Will Rogers and his take on political affairs. He died in that plane crash in 1935, but his words make sense today.
* If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out.
* The taypayers are sending Congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back.
* You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way.
* We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
* Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate.
* This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
* Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Watch the late night comedians on tv and try to disagree with the last one. Leno, Letterman, Stewart, and all the others of their ilk make quite a bit of sense at times. The one I've liked the best of all was Tina Fay's Sarah Palin. That reminds me, where has Sarah been lately?
