The primary concern of our leading politicians is still what the affair is doing to the two most powerful parties in upcoming elections.

Speaking of that, how can any American in good conscience with a functioning brain, even consider putting a majority of Republicans back in the House and in the Senate? They have done everything against effective governing in regards to every major issue since they became the majoral party.

One might even ask this of the Democratic party. Their concerns are also the effects on party politics, not the effect the Clinton-Lewinsky case is having on the nation.

If one never realized it before, the last five years have made it glaringly clear a Congress divided, a Congress that does not act in a bipartisan way at all times, is a Congress that will not direct its concerns to the best interests of the people.

And, no matter what the idealistic philosophy is, Congress has been during my lifetime nothing more than two mad dogs fighting each other.

What we have been subjected to is nothing more than party power moves. Power and the establishment of it has long been the prime motivator for both parties although (at this time)the Republican Party actions in this respect far exceed those of Democrats.

The episode that continues on seems more like a badly written soap opera rather than intelligent human beings striving to govern the masses by determining what the masses want. Actually, what two-thirds of the masses want has been ignored, a fact that also clearly indicates the need for ‘a party-neutral’ Congress.

Could we live without party politics in Congress? Could we survive having the primary focus on issues of governing rather than how one party or the other could increase its power?

Could we live with every member of Congress realizing his or her constituency is not just party members, not just the constituency that elected them, but, instead, all the people of this nation?

It is the Congress of the United States, not the Congress of the Republican/Democratic Party, not the Congress of the 6th District in the State of ________.

As such, Ladies and Gentlemen, its sole function is to represent the people of this nation, not their own self-serving ends.