Politics Is Like Driving. To Go Backward

There's No One Silver Bullet, But Money Really Is The Root Of All Evil. The Single Biggest Problem Is How Much More Money Is Flooding Into Politics These Days. It Not Only Tends To Enable A More Extreme Candidate To Get Elected, But Because So Much Money Is Required To Bankroll A Campaign, Everyone Spends All Their Free Time Fundraising Instead Of Reaching Across The Aisle.

Let's Face It, In America Today We Don't Have A Health Care System, We Have A Sick Care System. We Wait Until People Become Obese, Develop Chronic Diseases, Or Become Disabled - And Then We Spend Untold Hundreds Of Billions Annually To Try To Make Them Better.

While President Bush's Tax Give-aways For The Rich Are Pushing Us Further Into Debt, He Compensates By Increasing The Out-of-pocket Costs To Our Veterans.

Politics Is Like Driving. To Go Backward Put It In R. To Go Forward Put It In D.

When I First Arrived To Congress In 1975, I Would Spend Several Hours Every Week With Republicans - Having Lunch, Drinking A Beer. But By The Time I Left Last Year, That Was A Rarity. Every Moment Of Free Time Is Eaten Up By Fundraising. And The Advent Of All These Groups That Can Threaten Passage Of This Or That With An Avalanche Of Money Or A Primary Opponent Has Poisoned Our Politics.