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Between watching and reading about the political atmosphere in this country I cannot help but laugh.

Unionized Clark County employees packed Tuesday’s commission meeting to show solidarity against an advisory report that calls for cuts to their ever-growing wages. … Commissioner Tom Collins … played to his audience, clad in yellow T-shirts, in declaring pay cuts off the table. “If they’re not worth what you’re paying them, then you should fire them,” Mr. Collins said. …

For as long as I can remember, elected Democrats everywhere have claimed to be devout defenders of “working families.”

In response to Benjamin Spillman’s Friday article, “Ruling expected to bring more political ads to state for 2010 races”: I am honestly at a loss as to why Republicans are in favor of the ruling allowing unions and corporations to finance campaign efforts, and Democrats are opposed.

Bad news for organized labor last week — and ominous news for taxpayers.

It was either the end of democracy as we know it, or the restoration of it.

We’re now way beyond the cliche of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Health care reform could have been about lifting up the health of Americans. Instead, the process became the equivalent of a wolf pack stalking, attacking and killing its prey. Special interests consumed all that could have been good or possible, leaving us with a carcass stripped clean.

In my Jan. 3 column, I projected that Barack Obama would probably not wake up one morning this year, slap his forehead and exclaim that allowing welfare recipients to vote is a blatant conflict of interest which is quickly turning this nation into a collectivist slave state.

Democrats, dazed and confused, sat around at week’s end arguing about how to proceed, or not, on the fading signature of health care. Three schools of thought predominated.