According to Colwell

I’ve been wanting to write a post on the political issues that will shape the upcoming mid-term elections, but I find the entire state of affairs too depressing. The United States used to pride itself on setting an example of liberty, equality, prosperity, and human rights for the world. Now we’re the country that complains that article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which states that combatants (and non-combatants) who are no longer in the field of combat “shall in all circumstances be treated humanely”, is too vague. A recent poll says only 25% of the country approves of the job congress is doing, but district gerrymandering almost assures that there will be very little turnover in the House of Representatives. The national debt is enormous, (in fact, it dwarfs even my crude estimate of the cost of converting the country’s entire electrical grid to solar photovoltaics) and Bush is returning to fear-mongering about not only terrorists, but higher taxes if Democrats are elected. Whatever happened to the GOP being fiscally conservative?

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