temeculaguy: I’m with you.
I used to naively believe that who the person in the oval office was would make more of a difference than it really does but in reality, it ain’t so. In the end, the overwhelming majority of politicians are crooks and will take a bribe to enrich themselves and say anything to keep getting elected so they can keep taking more bribes. For each one that they catch, a thousand more get away with it. And when they get caught, (since most are lawyers) they find loopholes to slip out of a conviction.
One of the most recent, glaring cases was William J. Jefferson of Louisiana who was caught with $90k in cash that he took as a bribe and that he was hiding in his freezer. (earlier, Jefferson was videotaped by the FBI receiving $100k in $100 bills in a leather briefcase) Despite this evidence (and much more), legal maneuvering has kept him out of prison and he ran for re-election and won. Presently, he has finally been indicted by a grand jury and but is still serving in Congress. In the end, he will probably get off with a slap on the hand………..and we’ll never know how many times and how much money he took as bribes over his political career.
And on a local level………….who could ever forget, “Greedy” Duke Cunningham?
And so, the political beauty pageant goes on and the general public gets poorer by the actions of these fools on Capitol Hill.
