For Better Or Worse

Ah, Members of Congress, You Have Quite A History of Disappointment:

You can’t use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! ~ Possibly Secretary of the Interior, Jacob Dolson Cox, quoted by Henry Adams (1828-1900).

It Is The Season Of The Politician And Personal Attacks:

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs,
The homely hen lays one.
The codfish never cackles
To tell you what she’s done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
While the humble hen we prize,
Which only goes to show you
That it pays to advertise.

For The Average Person Of The Middle Class:

I belong to that highly respectable tribe
Which is known as the Shabby General
Too proud to beg; too honest to steal

From the play, “A Poor Relation”

A Common Belief Then and Now

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress ~ Mark Twain

A Salute To Those War Fighters For Their Service

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. ~ Herbert Clark Hoover, June 27, 1944.

Without you and your service, there would be no US.