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This would be absolutely laughable, except it is a sitting Senator lying through his D@MN teeth!!!

Today's so-called leaders have absolutely no shame. They stop at nothing to keep their positions, and then think they can fool us with the lamest of arguments and the most transparent of motives. That they think this can be sucessful, shows how little they think of the intelligence of the American people and how much they perceive themselves as elites who are entitled to better than the rest. Look at Arlen Spector, and now McCain.

Is there a more selfish group of human beings than our current representatives in Washington? They ignore their responsibility to 300 million Americans, holding their personal self interest as their only interest.

The sad thing is they are reflective of those who elected them and keep them in power. It's difficult to be optimistic for our country. I'm afraid we have, at large, lost the qualities required for a society to keep freedom and liberty. The founding fathers knew it:

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

"Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are a gift from God? Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." Patrick Henry

What's more disheartening, the progressives know it (hell, they brought a lot of it about), and believe we are ripe for submission to their oligarchy. The constitution is held openly in disdain. Someone here, very recently posted an article from Salon, where the author wrote that people who agree with the constitution, and hold it in the same stead as did the founding fathers, have a "constitutional fetish". We want to live in the 1700s he contended. Of course his entire argument was against a straw man of his own making; totally illogical and without actual proof, like most (all?) liberal discourse; but, the idea that belief in the relevance of the constitution and the wisdom of the men who drafted it is somehow akin to a deviant, sexual perversion just illustrates how twisted is the thinking of far too many.

Sometimes, I am overwhelmed by how far and fast we have fallen. Gallup poll from Jan. indicated that 36% of Americans have a somewhat favorable view of socialism. That is astounding. I hope I am just momentarily discouraged; and there are enough good people to slow down this runaway progressive train come November.

If it doesn't happen in November, then what?

Apologies for the downcast point of view; it is just what is on my mind of late.