Our Time Will Come

Not yet. This is still a land of revolution by election and not donkey carts to the nearest lamp post. This risky system, this Republic isn't yet tragically and desperately wrong in its ways; what's wrong is the band of elected worms who thrive in the eddy of moral sewage in Washington, and the smaller pools in every state and town in this nation.

There is nothing in their eyes but a swarm of bats. We want simple, modest men and we get a Harry Reid, the cretinous rope man in every sepia tintype of Old West lynch mobs. We want the success and distaff perspective of a powerful woman, a woman to confirm the old hopes of feminism, and we get Nancy Pelosi, the stupid, toothgrinding, uber grandma with a switchblade in her apron pocket - or maybe worse, the ideological slurry leaking from the head of Olympia Snowe.

We want simple wisdom and we get the lightless Jack-o'-Lantern head of Dick Durbin, the brute stupidity of John Kerry, or the slobbering hackery of Tom Harkin or Arlen Specter. Add your names: the 10W-30 Chuck Schumer, the bug-eyed, blue-blazered Lindsey Graham, the silver-suited senile Robert Byrd, the post-mortem pallor with personality to match of John McCain, the sleazy, carpet-bagging old-money Rockefeller or the permanent Tiki head vapidity of Mitch McConnell. And when they aren't shameless, grunting swindlers like Rangel, or forehead-slappingly stupid like Maxine Waters, the best you can say is that they have the qualifications of warm doorstops.

And these are just the ones we know about. These shards of glass under the national saddle have us galloping to nowhere, or somewhere near the edge of ruin, every day. They don't have the right! This week Gallup told us that overall approval for Congress was at 21%, with Democrat approval just under 50%, Independents at 16% and Republicans at 9%.

Howling into your pillow is faint relief for your nausea and disgust. Every revolution is preceded by the desertion of the middle class - desertion not from the country but from the incompetence, guile and degradation of those who would steal from and rule you, rather than govern. That's where it starts. It doesn't matter if some of them are better than others. Get rid of all of them.