And Jim Jones only had one bad day!!
Well said.
The fact that we must endure glowing eulogies for marginal and crooked politicians like this, esp. with the help of the supposedly “watchdog” press, shows us just how far our standards have declined over the decades.
Many in Congress and the government should be in jail for obvious crimes or acts of corruption in office or during campaigns. Any of us certainly would be. We would have a hard time finding work (including government jobs in sensitive areas) - and be placed on various watch lists for some of these criminal activities.
Instead, we get nonsense - weepy displays, baseless public defenses, and even civil-service and Committee-Chair PROMOTIONS - for these low-life, marginal contributors, and outright crooks.
Geither, Frosty-freeze Jefferson, Rosty the Postman, Sandy Burglar, Barry the cokehead, the Clintons’ and their doc hide-&-seek games, Ways & Means tax-crook Wrangel, etc., etc.
It’s enough to make the average citizen want to give up the moral life — and go into politics.