The Vice President will be leaving a slimy, black legacy.

Some idealists suggest that election campaigns be paid for by the Treasury -- taxpayers would pay for campaigns intended to elect people we don't like. In fact, we DO have public campaign funding but nobody wants to admit it.

A president is supposed to be emotionally stable, not a weeping willow.

With fifty states in the union, we have fifty different laboratories in which to test different approaches to a problem.

Don't regulate campaign finance; just require disclosure.

Can we have a little dignity please?

By taking this preposterous action, the CIA has provided a signal service.

Not only don't we need one, we're better off without one.

Unlimited money, unlimited visibility, unlimited clout - what could possibly go wrong?

Somehow, we have reached the point where we view democracy and elections as ends in themselves. But they aren't.