Politicians behaving badly (2008/2009)

2008 and 2009 were busy times for politicians having extramarital affairs.

It makes you wonder where the ethics committees are:

Mark_Sanford ("hiking the Appalachian Trail")

John_Ensign#Extramarital_affair

Marc_Dann#Extramarital_affair

John_Edwards#Extramarital_affair

Eliot_Spitzer#Scandal_and_resignation

However, there is a very long list, which will have to wait for a later post

Paul_E._Patton#Extramarital_affair

Don_Sherwood#Extramarital_affair

How your tax money is spent

An activist/journalist posts over at the thetoiletpaper.com on where your tax dollars go.

http://thetoiletpaper.com/blog/2009/the-average-mans-tax-dollars/

A balanced system

With the partisan paralysis, it seems apparent we need more
independent voices proposing courses of action.

With the disclosure of a constitutionally explosive issue like warrantless,
illegal surveillance, I'm dismayed that the congress can't even:

1) Provide any real oversight or investigation of the issue
(I know, it's more important to know whether Barry Bonds used steroids)

2) Appoint a special prosecutor

or

3) Reach consensus on whether or not laws were broken (which you can use
special prosecutors to help you with)