Power and pride the culprit of our woes

Laurel Leader-Call

LAUREL — How on earth did we come to this? Three weeks from now we might very well find ourselves in total economic collapse not from a devastating natural disaster or a diabolical terrorist attack. No, the politicians in Washington are dealing with something much worse: an insatiable appetite for power and the luring temptation of pride.

Let’s rewind to nine months ago back to November 2, 2010. You might recall that was the congressional elections where Democrats loss the House to Republicans and as the President said about the Democrats outcome, “We took a shellacking”.

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