Indiana lawmakers return in January -- one variation of headline in many newspapers and on many Web sites in the last couple of weeks.
"No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session." -- attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
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Be VERY afraid...
Mike Sylvester
Didn't know Ben said that...sounds more like something from Twain!
But just as apropos now as then!
;)
B.G.
God bless gridlock.!!!
I hear a faint echo of Jack Nicholson: You want gridlock?! You don't know gridlock! You can't HANDLE gridlock!
Those of us who are a smidge older remember what real gridlock, years of it, looks like, when nothing under the sun gets done. I recall few times when the American people were more disgusted with Congress.
We may argue for many things, but let's not argue for another round of gridlock.
Gridlock is nothing more than an extended, frustrating, proactively sustained, politically ossified ignorance. The saddest thing about it is that those who nurture it are proud of it. Americans hate, despise gridlock.
But then, if Americans despise it, politicians MUST be "doing the right thing"... eh wot? .... .... ... Naaaaaaah.
Daniel Webster: "Now is a time when men work silently in the fields and women cry softly in the kitchen; the legislatures is in session and no man's property is safe.