The more I watch the implosion of numerous politicians' careers, the more I marvel that politicians whom WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES elected seem clueless about how life runs outside the Beltway--or outside of their state capital buildings, in the case of our numerous wayward state governors.
When I initially registered to vote ate age 18, I actually registered AS a Republican, though as time has gone by I've been less committed to party lines and more committed to common sense. Since I left home in the mid to late '80s, I've observed the GOP veer further and further onto its present trajectory, a path on which it caters without question to the whims of ONE religious sect--with no regard for party faithful of differing faiths. What is this; a political party or a megachurch?
The Democratic party is by no means a flawless creation, either, between the business in Illinois over the "sale" of now-President Obama's vacated Senate seat, or the fervent belief of some Democrats that all Republicans are like our last President (anyone else remember the bumper sticker that reads, "Yee Haw is NOT a foreign policy!"?).
How the mighty have been falling in droves over the past few years: New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, and now Alaska's governor voluntarily deciding against finishing up her term of office (for God only knows what reason, though I suspect the investigation into her husband earlier this year may have been a factor).
While I hesitate to wonder what's next, I also remember an adage of my grandmother, who would now be nearly 105 years old were she still with us: "There's nothing new under the sun." My father quietly foresees another American Revolution, in which the sitting politicians find out the hard way how they've disappointed the rest of us, we who elected them in the first place. All we can do now is what King Arthur said he'd do in Monty Python & the Holy Grail: watch and pray!
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