What this ‘person’ is talking about is the Shays-Meehan bill to do away with soft money contributions to the political parties. In case you don’t know, soft money contributions are unregulated contributions made to a party, not to individuals.

If you are a Republican, read the quote above again. If you missed it, he stated that supporters of the bill believe, “.. that Americans are too stupid to sort out what is true from false.” This statement was made in response to the House passing the bill.

Why would he use that phrasing and direct it to all Americans? Stop and think about it.

Congress has misled us, violated the Constitution, do their usual amount of lying during elections and thereafter, believe themselves to be above the law (witness Gingrich lying about using donations for his own politician purposes and lying for over two years about it), social security, the means of obtaining money to run the government, voting in favor of wealthy special interests groups that have donated millions to their party, and - well, you get the idea.

And, we sit back on our butts doing nothing about it because we think we can't. Or, because we just don't have the time. Or, we listen or read what is said or written and find later on, maybe years, that the politicians had lied as had media supporters.

Because of this, here is what I think in regards to campaign funding. First of all, campaign funding is not the problem - ABUSE of campaign funding is. Every corrupted politician made a personal choice to become corrupted because of the tremendous profits to them and their party.

Huge contributors, such as the tobacco interests and the agri-oil businesses, do so in order to buy politicians and their votes. I believe it to be a source of financial gratuity to specific politicians, that the parties knowingly and willingly use the funds for such.

Without a doubt, campaign funding to be the primary source for corruption. I am far from stupid. It often takes hours of rather boring research to get at the truth, to find other than distortions from politicians, if not other than out-and-out lying.

Now, let me ask you - Are you? Stupid, that is? According to DeLay's analaysis of supporters of the bill, they believe you are if you support campaign funding reform. Isn't this exactly backwards?

Added to Delay's analysis, we also know House Republicans, at least enough to pass the bill through the House (51), could safely do so since the bill now faces the Senate, a Senate not likely to vote on the bill.

In other words, rather than another major bill’s being buried by the House as was the last, it will be buried by the Senate, also with a Republican majority.

How do I know? Because Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, R-Miss, has said he has no intention of returning to the issue this year. “No side can get 60 votes, “ said Lott spokesman John Czwartcki. “It would be a big waste of time.” (Which translates to: We aren't going to cost ourselves money.)

So, there you have it. Washington politicians want the coffer doors left open. This time the culprit will be the Senate. What a scam by a bunch of con-artists.

Thus, campaign reform is dead as is the removal of a source of money for politicians lacking in integrity (maybe all of them no matter how they voted).

And, that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the fact the majority of Congress thinks we are too stupid to recognize.