Let me just sum it up in these words: entropy never sleeps.
It takes effort to maintain standards. It takes effort to sweep filth out of a living body, to sweep dust and dirt out of a tidy home. It takes effort to keep entropy out of the billions of transistors in each CPU chip.
It takes effort to keep germs out of the food we eat. It takes effort to keep a house painted, a bridge from corroding and falling down.
It takes effort to keep a cooking fire burning. It takes effort to keep an electrical generation and distribution system functioning.
And, as anticipated so well by the brilliant Benjamin Franklin, it takes effort, vigililence, and sacrifice to keep a Republic, which is at once the mightiest - and also the most vulnerable - form of self-governance.
We see the desire to give up on fight againt the ceaseless pressure of entropy in the attitudes of John McCain, of Orrin Hatch, of Richard Lugar, just as we saw it in Bob Michael and Howard Baker, years ago.
Every one of them stood for what was right years ago, but now the effort is too much. The Left is ready to go to war over a chicken sandwich. For the "cooling saucer" of the Senate Republicans, it's all too much of a hassle.
I guess that turned into a long-winded diatribe anyway. Entropy again.
It really bothers me when someone makes a long post and there’s nothing to disagree with. Oh well...
Right on from my perspective Steely Tom. Thank you.