There seems to be a lack of class among our political leaders, and that's sad.

On the floor of the United States Senate last week, there was a confrontation between Senator Lehay, a Democrat, and Vice President Dick Chaney during a photo opportunity (Chaney is the president of the Senate as part of his veep duties), during which Chaney dropped the "F" bomb at his adversary in a violation of the honoured rules of decorum of the Senate floor.

There's nothing wrong with having disagreements over issues and policies; that's just part of democractic multiparty government. But you do not allow such disagreements to become personal as apparantly Cheney did this past week.

Unfortunately, there are rogues in both the Republican and Democratic parties who believe in the rule of win at all costs, of "my way or no way". In our form of government, one has to learn that often that attitude does not work and that must of the time you must comprimise to get your issue resolved in incriments over time. After all, half of something is much better than all of nothing. But since the days of Newt Gingrich becoming Speaker of the House during the "Reagan Revolution", the Republican leadership has taken the attitude that comprimise with the other side is not an option. It seems that this cancer has now spread to the other side of the Capitol.

It's time to cut out that cancer, and to do that we need a Democratic House and Senate majority NOW, not to mention John Kerry as the next President of the United States.

While I'm writing this morning, I noticed that Ralph Nader didn't get the Green Party nomination yesterday. Smart move by the Greens, who apparantly say Nader's campaign really is, a vanity run and that a vote for him is really a vote for GWB.