Politics going downhill
Leonard Pitts congratulated Jeff Flake's "conservative conscience" while ignoring that many liberals lack one themselves. Politics have gone downhill in my lifetime, and it is not all the fault of Republicans.
Anybody else recall the heavy-set black woman on some TV gab-fest saying she wished Justice Clarence Thomas' wife would feed him lots of bacon and kill him?
I don't agree with "tit-for-tat" in politics, and pointing to the bad behavior of others is no excuse to
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