Happy Thanksgiving!

And the good news is "Tom DeLay, one of the most powerful and divisive Republican lawmakers ever to come out of Texas, was convicted Wednesday of money-laundering charges" (James McKinley, The New York Times). Unfortunately, he's appealing the conviction and it's doubtful he'll ever spend a minute in jail. Elected officials who try to undermine the government, like Richard Nixon, are immune from the penalties the rest of us face. Some clown gets caught with a joint, and he can go away for decades, but an elected politician who commits a treasonous act like trying to undermine the government, which can adversely affect 300 million people, gets a slap on the wrist. Remember when Ford argued that being forced to resign from office, the way Nixon felt he had to, was more punishment than the rest of us could understand. Evidently, we are not a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Some of us live on Mt. Olympus, while the rest of us are mere cows to be milked.