Who will be the nominees from the Republicans? The Democrats? What direction will the campaign take once the nominees are official? How negative and nasty will the ads get? How many promises will be made... and later broken? Can anyone really "reach across the aisle" to get anything accomplished on behalf of the people? I guess time will answer these questions... sooner or later. In the mean time, I thought it might be fun to look at what others down through the years have had to say about politics. Today we'll listen to some things Mark Twain had to say:

• Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself.
• If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
• No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
• The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
• There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.

Who would have known that things would have changed so much since Twain's time?!?!