Don't get me started: Lie to me

When we hear lies, like the supposed WMDs in Iraq, which led us into a war of devastating cost both financial and human--when we hear lies out of Washington, or Denver or Phoenix, Albany or Jeff City, Tallahassee or Madison, Columbus or any other state capitol, county seat or city hall, it's not "government" that is lying to us--it's people. People that we elected, and often proudly so, like so many who voted--in two elections--for that good ol' boy liar George W. Bush. Or for that other good ol' boy, Bill Clinton, who found it necessary to lie about the most mundane personal matters, leading the country into a morass that paralyzed our government for years. Or the elected--the elected--politicians who just had to make a big deal out of his ill-advised, but private, sexual dalliance. What exactly was the point of all that? At least the Iraq war is making some rich people richer; uh, too bad about the casualties.

Or like the current crop of havoc-wreaking, so-called "conservative" representatives that we elected to Congress. Conservative my Aunt Polly's prune-bread! Those jokers are as radical a bunch as we've seen since the police riots at the 1968 Democratic convention. They don't care who gets hurt.

Or every pout-throwing, pocket-lining or power-mad governor, county commissioner, state senate president, district attorney or tax assessor that we put in office--that we put in office.

You know what it is that we dislike so much about government? Why it rankles, chafes and ticks us off at every turn? Because it's us. Because we create it, every two, four or six years, we make it, over and over, into a reflection of who we really are.

You want to protest bad government? Then look in the mirror.

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