Why can’t our politicians handle the truth? (ajc)
MONROEVILLE, Al. — The drought is severe here and the weather miserably hot,
with temperatures reaching triple digits frequently this summer. That’s what
occupies ordinary folk in my small hometown.
My mom’s friends and neighbors talk about the crops that are withering in the
fields — corn stalks turning brown, cotton seed too parched to sprout. They
talk about Casey Anthony’s culpability in the death of her young daughter.
They talk about jobs. Or the lack of them.
They don’t talk about the federal deficit or the debt-ceiling negotiations
that consume the nation’s capital. They are too worried about their own
household budgets to fret about the federal treasury.
Spending a week here has reminded me of the stark divide between ordinary
Americans and the representatives they send to Washington to serve their
interests. Here in the real America — at least the part of it that is in
decline — the inside-the-Beltway political gamesmanship, competing news
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