Politics

Politics is something no sane person would want to be involved with. Perfect example being the latest <acronym title="Bull Shit!!!">BS</acronym> over the pay <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/01/25/build/state/15-raise-bill.inc" target="_new">increase for state workers</a>. The Governor has one proposal and the Republicans are holding it up for their proposal. Where does the BS politics come in. The Republicans are upping the ante and want to give the state workers more than the Governor proposed.<br />n<br />nSo, if Governor BS opposes the Republican pay increase he is going against his own word to increase pay for state employees and the Republican party can hammer him on it. Also if the Governor opposes the pay raise the Republicans can beat on it next election season as an issue how Governor BS really doesn't support the people and want to raise their wages. If he caves to the Republican proposal then the Republicans can run around with their chests out saying they got a better pay raise for the state employees and they will definitely remind the voters of it come election time how much more they got for them than the Democrats were offering.<br />n<br />nPolitics, nasty business. As much as I despise Governor BS I have to feel sorry for him on this one. Either way he can lose.<br />n<br />n<b>Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith</b>