If I were in public office...

[Recursion]

...I'm pretty sure I could avoid having sex with women I was not married to for a few years. How difficult is this? Hell, where do these guys find the time? I'm just in grad school, which can't be as time-consuming as running a state/country, and I don't have time for that kind of shenanigans.

Maybe the problem is that people stay in office too long. Maybe we need some kind of public office cooling-off period: after each term in office you should go back to private life for as long as you were in office before you run again. That way you can get stupid shenanigans out of your system on your own time and dime. Plus it would get rid of the "career politician" class that seems to be attract a lot of American's rancor.

[jwirr]

1. Yeah, after Bill I wanted my candidates to promise to keep their pants

zipped unless they were in bed with their wife as long as they were in office. This thing with Spitzer makes me so angry. Didn't he care what he was doing to the rest of us? Here we go again - the pugs will have nothing else to talk about.