Mark Foley is a political whore, like most of his elected peers in Washington, DC.  Yes, this post is yet another plea for radical campaign finance reform.

Our country appears to be going down the tubes and for the most part it is not because of perverts like Mark Foley are trying to seduce young boys.  The reason we are really in trouble is because hundreds of elected officials (Mark Foley among them) are perverting our Constitution by acquiescing in our corrupt (though technically legal) election system.

How often do you hear a politician discussing an issue in a way that makes intuitive sense to you and seems straightforward?  Not very often, in my experience.  Almost all political conversations emanating from DC are contorted by money.  That is why very little political dialogue makes sense to those who are not closely monitoring the flow of contributions.  The result is that we the citizens are getting is a steady stream of legislation geared toward helping big contributors (mostly big companies) at the expense of individual citizens. 

Today, Salon.com featured an article about Mark Foley, a known sex pervert.  Foley has also been busy perverting our electoral system (as have most other elected federal officials) by taking big money from corporate interests and working hard to reward those contributors. Since Foley himself happened to be in the news already, Salon.com made him today’s poster boy in an article demonstrating that political/financial quid pro quo is alive and well.

The Salon.com story …