B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 20, 2019

“Vote for Me! I’ll set (Your Money) FREE!” – The Temptations “Ball of Confusion.”

I liked Gerald Ford as President because he never sought the office; he fell into it after the resignations of Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon. But he was a Republican, so the media (and SNL) just had to savage him. (That doesn’t mean that certain other Republicans don’t deserve to be savaged. You know who I mean.)

Show me the guy who ‘volunteered’ to run, and I’ll show the guy who held up his hand because he didn’t understand the question.

Why is it that people who become politicians to work for the ‘people’ seem to think they are more important than the people they work for?

It’s a catch-22.

New politicians are taught by reading Orwell. “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

This is akin to Groucho Marx’s statement, “I would not want to be a part of any organization that would have me as a member.”

we need to STOP reelecting rascals! Yet we do it over and over and over again.

As you can see by these comments, don’t discuss politics!

Rule #2: Anyone who wants power and authority ought never be given it.

I believe some of the bad outcomes the effect our elected representatives are ‘contageous’. Start with Congress. The House & Senate only meet in Washington for swearing in & other ceremonial occasions. Hearings, committee meetings and floor debates could be held by telecommuting. Then require that all votes be cast from an open location in the politician’s home district at an announced time. This could go a long way toward keeping politicians better-connected to their constituants than they are to their colleagues. Federal executive beaurocacy could also be more geographically distributed – administered closer to the activities that effect real people.

Luckily we have one now.

And, still, why – hands down – George Washington was the best President, ever!

President Trump has no political ambitions, he doesn’t even have a political Party as he is opposed by both sides on some occasions, yet he is still accomplishing what needs to be done.

A person with political ambition is seldom what is best for the country.

Well put,my friend!

So true!

Frankly, so would I.

The tradition of the career politician took several decades to materialize but now that it’s fully metastasized, I think the condition is terminal

All things considered, only an insane person would want to be President of the United States. Thus anyone elected President of the US must be considered insane. On the rare incident that someone is elected to the office by accident (it has happened), the job will drive them insane.

Hooray!!!!!!

“This was probably the best form of government that mankind had ever devised. […] As soon as the entire adult population had been educated to the limits of its intellectual ability (and sometimes, alas, beyond), genuine democracy became possible. The final step required the development of instantaneous personal communications, linked with central computers. […] Thereafter, selecting a head of state was relatively unimportant. Once it was universally accepted that anyone who deliberately aimed at the job should automatically be disqualified, almost any system would serve equally well, and a lottery was the simplest procedure.”

— Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth