CONGRESS SHOULD STAY ON TASK, OUT OF STATES

Why is it that when this country, the one they've been elected to look
after responsibly, is facing so many more critical issues that could
benefit from their careful attention (say homeland security, health
care, the budget deficit, social security, immigration, the economy,
unemployment, energy, the environment, crime and prisons, the drug
trade and its victims, just for starters), our legislators in
Washington are spending their valuable time meddling in private family
or state issues, like substance abuse in baseball, the fate of Terri
Schiavo, a marriage amendment to the constitution or the posting of
the Ten Commandments?

I'm not saying that these issues are trivial, but there are plenty of
perfectly good state and local authorities in place who are perfectly
capable of handling them. Our federal government has far bigger fish
to fry, and I for one think they should stop grandstanding and start
frying.

Wouldn't it be grand if our political leaders were to worry as much
about actually obeying the Ten Commandments as they do about posting
them?

Patricia Bermon

Larkspur