Here we have Sarah Palin, talking only in semi syllables,with dangling participles, unfinished sentences, speaking about three things in each sentence telling the people of Alaska, and indirectly the people of America, that she does things differently than other politicians and she is such a fan of the public she is going to save all of us from her serving out her lame duck tenure as Governor. She has so many false claims of misconduct against her that it would be better for her not to have to stay in office and try and defend herself. She knows all of these alleged criminal acts are just jealous Democrats trying topple her. So for the good of the people she is resigning.
Phew! Sarah makes up an excuse to cop out, she has larger ambitions on the political front, realizes she has screwed up royally, but somehow creates a buzz she is doing all of this for her constituents and citizens. Uh huh!
Then there is new evidence that Senator Ensign of Nevada a staunch Pro Family Anti Gay kind of guy, is a part of some very private church group housed on C Street in Washington D.C. It is lovingly referred to as "The Family". From all accounts it is religious group of Evangelical Christian Right Wing elected officials. They have a spiritual leader who quotes the great men of history, like Lenin, Pol Pot, Hitler, and the Bush's favorite family guy Osama Bin Laden, as men who take destiny into their own hands, and have the masses, which really are bothersome in their grip and run the planet as they see fit.
The leader of the family some 30 years ago it seems had Jesus come to him in his apartment in D.C. to say that Christians have it all wrong; it is not about loving thy brother, it is about a few chosen smart men controlling the money and the power and through their discretion help those less fortunate, or not.
But to the point, Senator Ensign, a member of the C Street family, was considered one of those chosen men and was told he could do no wrong. When he did wrong, he was counseled by the leader of the "Family", and one Senator Coburn of Oklahoma,( the poster boy for hating abortionists, gays and poor people), and told stop your silly affair. Write a letter to the "other woman" the harlot and say it was all a mistake.
The thing is, Senator Ensign had been told he was all powerful and above the laws of the land and wrote the letter but still confessed in another letter to his mistress, he still craved her body and wanted to continue the sex. Married or not!
Why this is important to me has many reasons. The fact that politicians can make and break the rules, ignore common sense, use God as their witness, and expect the public to believe their third or fourth accountings of the same story and many times get away with it is wrong on so many levels.
The fact that so many politicians are busy running everyone else's lives, setting standards for us which seem to be higher than those they live by is disturbing.
The fact that they get re-elected or that they come across as martyrs, or never really made to face their consequences infuriates me. Republicans are so good at letting bygones be bygones.
When will the American public stop allowing the situation comedy writers to run this country on a double standard. Most of these politicians beg to be nominated and elected, they tell us about the flag, and God and family. And for the most part, if they share the same dogma, bigotry, hate and exclusion of groups of a majority of uneducated, self loathing individuals they get elected and from the first day on the job become some kind of self important monster.
And they begin to lie, or cheat, or steal money. And the only time they even mention their wrong doings is when they are caught.
And most Americans let it happen.
Fact turns to fiction, and the situation comedy goes on and on and on. And the only ones laughing it seems are the Politicians.
Ug!
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