More thoughts on bonuses

Congressional behavior last Friday was not merely an exercise in poor judgment, it was vindictive, malicious and petty, all of which proved one thing: those who voted for the 90 percent tax on bonuses aren't nice people. You couldn't afford to consider any of these congressmen or women personal friends, even if you knew them well. They couldn't be trusted to do the right thing most of the time. (None of us does the right thing all the time.) You'd have to watch your back. Yet these people help to govern the United States of America. It's a wonder our nation has lasted this long.

Thank God our founders set up two houses of Congress, neither of which can act alone. Thank God there is an executive branch and a judicial branch, all of which are, in theory at least, independent. If not for this division of authority and responsibility, our nation would have been toast long ago.