A Pox On Both Your Houses

The title is from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It also represents my feelings about both houses of our Congress. Congress has just passed a bailout bill that was necessary, according to representative and senators, to avoid a dire economic disaster. Forget the rightness or wrongness of the bill itself for a moment and just consider the pork they slipped into it. One would think, for once, our Congress could think of the country and leave aside pork barrel and earmark spending. They couldn't. Check it over, folks, the bill contains enough "sweeteners," as one Congressperson called them in public, to make any lowlife con artist green with envy. Congresspersons have finally proved, in public and under dangerous circumstances, that it is impossible for them to think only of the country. They cannot act for the good of the country, nor can they put aside for once their shady little greedy pork barrels. I am totally disgusted. Mark Twain got it right when he said that Congress was America's only native criminal class. Again, a pox on both their houses. We'd love to post your comments. Please click the comment tab at the top.