Post Election Murmurs

How come we the voters return to office 98% of those running for re-election? Even grading their performance on a curve a minimum of 25% should be sent packing, regardless of party, every election. Do voters actually follow the issues or do they just punch the card for the names they recognize.

Regardless of the outcome the bright spot of this election was that so many people bothered to pull themselves away from reality TV for few minutes and participate in real life by voting. Hopefully this was not an anomily but the beginning of a trend.

Here in California we had a proposition that empitomized selfishness. A gentleman, and I use the term loosely, in Northern California authored a bill that would gut our three strikes law. For those who do not know, the three strike law states that after conviction on a third felony the defendant does a minimum of twenty-five years. Was his cause noble? Was he concerned about the less fortunate who may have turned to crime out of despair. Hardly. His reason for authoring the bill was to get his son out of jail. His sons third felony was a vehicular manslaughter conviction, he was drunk and killed two of his friends. Sure the father spent all this money in a vain attempt to provide junior with a get out of jail free card but where was daddy when the first two felonies were committed.