A Sad State of Affairs

Regardless of who runs for office, it's always the Government that gets elected.

So said the Major Prophet George Harrison and yesterday South Carolina put lifetime politician Mark Sanford back Congress. As if Congress couldn't get any worse!

Of course in Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss has set off a firestorm by announcing he's not running for re-election and proves it by getting a hole-in-one while playing the President. He no longer has to give a damn about protocol.

So Congressman Jack Kinston is running for U. S. Senate so State Senator Buddy Carter can run for Congress so that Congressman Kingston's brother-in-law State Representative Ben Watson can run for the State Senate.

It's all very incestuous.

I spent decades playing the political games of City Hall, the County Commission, the Georgia State Capitol and in the halls of Congress. These are the things that I learned.

• They're all the same. There is no difference between Republicans and Democrats because they share the same ultimate goal which is to be re-elected or to move to a higher office.
• Libertarians are Republicans who smoke pot.
• The Tea Party movement is comprised of pissed off Republicans who believe wacked out stuff as evidenced by Christine O'Donnell from Delaware who said, "It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust! ... You're going to be pleasing each other. And if he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture?"

Please take a moment to shake your head while saying, "Do what?" as you try to make sense out of the above quote.

• Bill Clinton is the greatest recent American President because he balanced the budget, left a surplus, dropped one bomb that never hit anybody and made oral sex popular.
• Congress runs like a Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream store. You take a number, wait to be served and then get your ice cream. Then you must go to the back of the line, get a new number and start over if you want more ice cream. This was explained to me one day by an angry Congressman Jack Kingston after the Lobbyist for Memorial Health University Medical Center asked for more money immediately after receiving some.

I could go on but will conclude by saying I think it's good when Politicians sleep with one another in spite of what the Tea Party movement believes. Because if they're sleeping together, they can start doing to each other what they keep doing to us. And I'm tired of my ass hurting.