Pope Benedict resigned today becoming the first pontiff in 600 years to quit while still on the job.
Addressing a crowd estimated at 150,000 in St. Peter's Square outside the Vatican, he reportedly told the throng he was stepping down for the good of a church racked in recent months by charges of corruption and sexual abuse of children by priests in Europe and in the US.
According to one report, he said there were occasions when "It seemed like God was asleep." With all due respect to the retiring pontiff, his comment and the reason for his announced decision seem more than a little fitting for most of our esteemed elected officials in Washington.
Most of them have been asleep for years. And most of the rest are do-nothings sucking substance at the public trough. Stepping down for the good of the country would constitute, if we can use a quasi-political term, a magnanimous gesture befitting such a regal group.
Just one more thing. We are now at least a couple of pay checks into the new year. In one of our almost daily meanderings we speak to not just small business owners but many of those who actually do the heavy heaving.
The new tax bill this administration worked so diligently to foist on the so-called exempt middle and poorer classes, well, our survey, however unscientific and un-agenda funded, has yet to encounter anyone whose check isn't short come take-home day.
In fact, not that any of these folks really care about facts, many of the workers, to borrow a socialist term, are actually working more hours just for the privilege to take home less.
The sums may not to many of the anointed seem like much. But like the proverbial rock in the shoe, sometimes it doesn't take much to really hurt.
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