There used to be a line that a politician could not cross and keep the parties’ support. Where is that line today? We have a President-Elect who lives across the line. A Florida Representative that was widely known in his district as a drug user and sex trafficker still got elected. We have a New York Representative who takes bribes for supporting a Foreign Country. We have four Supreme Court Justices who lied under oath.  One takes very expensive trips for free and gifts.

            In the early sixties my Representative was so loved, people who had benefited from his largess bought him a helicopter and his brother built five Holiday Inns well out of towns. Why, we all wondered, but as luck would have it, they all ended up being on Intersections of I-57. Illinois had two Speakers of the House: One bought stamps through his office and then turned them back in for cash costing him his job. Was that all he did wrong? I doubt it. The other had a pension from a high school job as a wrestling coach and his Federal Check but was able to pay millions to keep a child sex crime quiet.        

            I am sure these are just a few toes in the pool of immoral and criminal activities in Federal, State and Local politics. I remember an Illinois Senator who would not run for a second term because he couldn’t tolerate “The morass in Washington” any longer. Where is the line in today’s politics? What will voters tolerate? IS THERE ANY LINE ANYMORE?