First, let me state this. I will never respect anyone simply because of a title. I don’t know the circumstances of how the individual obtained the title and certainly not if he earned it.

Second, if you happen to have a title of some sort, the next time you go to a restaurant and are paying, hold a card with your title on it in one hand and sufficient money to pay the bill in the other and see which the cashier takes. In other words, a title is just that, a title.

No, what counts is what a person does. So, third, it doesn’t matter what a person says he or she will do; it only matters what the person does.

We hear politicians say many things during elections, many of them which later prove to be false or to have been misleading.

Too often, all we are left with is the lesser of the evils, particularly when a campaign has focused on negative advertising. The person elected didn’t get elected necessarily on accomplishments and his own merit but simply because of being less bad than his opponent.

Therefore, any titled person, including members of Congress, must earn my respect. To this date, none have. A couple came close but blew it in the end. Trent Lott is an example.

Rather tragically, members of Congress have proved themselves to be self- and party-serving individuals not concerned with the best possible for the most. Instead, they serve their masters, power and money, which has resulted in them wallowing in a bog of corruption.

Their lack of respect for the American public has been shown by the majority of them in the last six years. Just a few examples that the proof is in the pudding, are the lies that have been told (not just Clinton’s but also other leaders such as Gingrich, Burton, Republican leaders that did away with campaign reform and John McCains’s bill concerning the tobacco industry, to state a few), illogical statements, misrepresentation of the facts or complete distortion of facts, promises made but broken, name calling bordering on gutter language, doing what is politically expedient for themselves or their party rather than the public's good, making statements that clearly show they consider the American public rather stupid, and so on.

Wheeling and dealing is their game, the game we call politics. How well they play it determines how much wealth they accummulate.

The truth is politicians are in the game to make money and to wield power over the people of this nation. Otherwise, the truth would be told about the 16th Amendment and social security, gun control proposals, national ID’s, biometric implants, surveillance of citizens, and other means of removing the rights of privacy and freedom of choice in our pursuits.

Honorable is a descriptive word for honest, just, upright, virtuous, true, ethical, fair, and noble. If any person has these qualities, I would be more than happy to preceed their title and name with honorable but, the fact is, our people in government have shown themselves extremely lacking in these qualities.

When our members of government have shown themselves to have the qualities of being ‘honorable’, then, and only then, will I preceed their name with this term of respect.

You see, Ladies and Gentlemen, they will then have earned my respect. But, with the bunch we now have in Congress, I don't expect to be using the term too often.