The words of James Madison

What would James Madison and the founding fathers think of the modern day tea party movement? What would they think of American citizens "protesting" a democratically elected President and undermining his agenda at every turn? What would he think of a movement that borrows it's name from protesting taxation without representation? To answer these questions I went back and read the Federalist papers and came upon these words:

"the latent causes of factions are sown in every man, and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points have in turn divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for the common good."

-James Madison

Madison went out of his way in his writings to warn of the destructive nature of letting passion and enthusiasms shape people's thinking and thus viewing the world in an us versus them mentality. We have all at one point spent much more time trying to "vex" or oppress each other rather than work for the common good. What would Madison think of us?

The 4th time is the charm.......

I just want to say a quick congratulations to the beacon of integrity, Rush Limbaugh, on his fourth marriage. This mountain of a man is a shining example of conservative values and tradition and is getting married to thirty-three year-old woman. Now, some peoples head would explode with the knowledge that a fifty-nine year old drug addict is getting married for the fourth time to a woman who is 26 years younger than him but those people just don't get Rush. They are just people who judge him on his actions (like sending out his maid to score drugs for him) and not on his words. I prefer to judge Rush on his words and really value his opinions on things like integrity, commitment, honesty and being a man of his word. I just don't understand why we live in a world where we don't all clap with glee when Rush tells us who the good people and who are the bad people in the world. So what if he has broken his sacred marriage vows three times, popped thousands of illegal drugs in his mouth, and eaten himself into obesity? Those are just his actions, judge the man on his words!