Slouching toward Mediocrity

Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute, points out the rabble-rousing Mob Mentality involved in the conduct of those most invoolved in creating the current economic situation in today's article at Townhall.com titled "Cheap Political Theater."

 

A couple of excerpts from this illuminating article:

    Death threats to executives at AIG, because of the bonuses they received, are one more sign of the utter degeneration of politics in our time.

    Congressman Barney Frank has threatened to summon these executives before his committee and force them to reveal their home addresses-- which would of course put their wives and children at the mercy of whatever kooks might want to literally take a shot at them.
    Whatever the political or economic issues involved, this is not the way such issues should be resolved in America. We are not yet a banana republic, though that is the direction in which some of our politicians are taking us-- especially those politicians who make a lot of noise about "compassion" and "social justice."

    What makes this all the more painfully ironic is that it is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television.

Read the entire article and then ask yourself, "Is this the kind of America I want my children and grandchildren to inherit?"

"What Were You Thinking?"

Obama's Senate Replacement

What is it about Democrat politicians from Chicago?  What is it, one has to ask, about the people of Illinois who continue to elect Chicago politicians?  Whatever it is, apparently it's a viral infection because we now have one of those in the highest elective office in the country.

And now Roland Burris, the man chosen by impeached-and-convicted governot Rod Blagojevich to replace Barack H. Obama in the U.S. Senate, has had to admit that he had not disclosed the full story under questioning by the Illinois Senate panel assigned to investigate the appointment.

If you're from Chicago, or even from the state of Illinois, please edify me as to the great attraction Chicago politicians hold for the voting public.  I have a book on  the shelf, by Larry L. King, titled Of Outlaws, Con Men, Whores, Politicians & Other Artists.  I told Larry that most of the categories in his title are redundant.