I realize that a person needs a certain amount of ego to run for political office ... especially for a statewide or national office ... but, it is quite astonishing to me just how many of our political representatives are egomaniacal, narcissistic attention whores. It seems that almost all of them fit this category.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence