Items in the mirror are closer than they appear.

May 26th, 2006

I do not expect this election year to be any different than years past. The truth will be distorted and the minds of the voters will be influenced with perceived popular thoughts. I cannot recall an election where prior to it life as we know it will be over just after the election seemingly despite who wins. We will be bombarded with misinformation which will be backed up by some group of professors from some university to lend credibility - I can not think of a time where the losing side rhetoric came true. I watched CSPAN yesterday and one side of the isle was trying to say the other side of the isle was going in the wrong direction yet they would offer no tangible method to accomplish the need - it was just, “your way sucks because you thought of it”.

Of course I don’t want every proposal to just get a green light thru congress and I want the debates to be productive. In election years congressional productivity gives way to party redefining to match the latest poles.

Term limits may be the answer.

Better yet take out the ability to revise or extend remarks and be accountable to everything you say on the house/senate floor - put everything thru a rhetoric panel and if your words contain greater than 60% rhetoric and is deemed idiocy then you will be docked 1 months pay and your constituency’s federal funding will be cut 10% for sending such an idiotic loud mouth to congress.;D