Jaded

I've been reading bits and pieces, headlines mostly, about the US Senator making inappropriate remarks/advances to a young male Senate page. Each day an informative new 'news' release arrives - first the poor Senator has checked himself into alcohol treatment because he has a 'problem' that is aligned with a medical condition (read: not his fault) and now today we learn that he was abused by a priest as a child (read: really not his fault.) Poor guy, I guess. He is the real victim here. Or something.

Is it just me or is this predictable? Isn't this the accepted formula for rehabilitating a political career: admit it after you can't deny it any more, be the victim yourself, seek 'treatment' for something and jump on any current 'sympathy' bandwagon you can catch. You'll be back in the saddle in no time.

We need across-the-board term limits. It would be a start, at least. One or two states can't impose them effectively, but if we all did, could we begin to do away with the Good Ole Boy Network and maybe, with it, even the whole bizarre way that our legislature has come to function? What could we Be with a government that works on a simpler system that doesn't require being "in" in order to do something? No more 'behind the scenes' legislation and backroom deals. No more pork barrel politics. No more perverts being protected by other perverts. No more cozy relationships with big business. No more attention to the 'war chest' to the exclusion of the issues. No more 'career' politicians. Maybe we'd even get representation of the actual voters, instead of the 'contributors.'

I'm just jaded. I'm sure it wouldn't work. They'd think of some other way. Whoever 'they' are.