D.C. PLAYTIME Far too many of our elected political leaders are currently engaged - day after day, week-after-week - in petty, bickering party-back-room games.
One would think grown men and women, many with some educational attainment, would be, at least trying to avoid such outward displays of childish pique being shown so avidly these days. Do they not comprehend the embarrassing position in which voters back home who have supported them on their way up. Certainly, in war time, in a time when natural disaster has caused serious dislocations in our national and international fabrics, is not a proper time or place to start argument and to start blaming people This is not a good time for doing the family laundry in public.
I mention it now now because it is time for many of us to get busy letting the world know how stupid this all must appear to people in other nations as well as many here in our own domain. Make it a point to look and listen for your local political person whom you helped put in office. Pay attention to what he has said and will say about situation.
I have been pleased with what I have heard my congress persons say about the many problems we are facing. It is one thing to talk about what can be done but it can be quite a different matter to do it and do it right. As cumbersome as business seem to become with government it is a wonder anything gets done at all.
Everyone makes mistakes, too. Never forget that.
Never get angry about it. The ballot box is your best talk back. Let him or her know that.
A.L.M. October 23, 2005 [c307wds]
