I'm Campaigning On Quieter TV Ads.

Isn't this a great time of the year? I mean the mountainsides are showing off their autumn splendor, fields and orchards and vineyards are offering their bounty. Even Congress is in recess. In fact, before they left for a month and a half, they unanimously passed a bill requiring all TV ads to be no louder then the programs they are interrupting. And you thought there could be no consensus within those hallowed halls. What more could we ask for? How could things be more perfect? Oh, I know. They left a lot of people out on a limb without extensions to unemployment benefits, and mortgage foreclosures increasing. But then, it is an election year which means endless, nasty attack ads bought and paid for by we know not whom. Very likely most are paid for by corporations and countries we would be truly unhappy to hear are running these ads. We don't know though, and the reason is that our Supreme Court told them it was OK to do it secretly. You know. The court that Pres. George W. Bush said was too actively involved with writing law and not enough interested in interpreting the constitution. Well, guess what Mr President. The new Supreme Court is so active, that over 100 years of precedent is being upended in favor of corporations and against the people. Come to think of it there's a lot that could have been done to improve the season. Like, oh I don't know, like energy legislation or job creation or two wars still going on or corporate leadership still pillaging their companies' pockets. I guess things aren't so hot after all. Maybe things will get better after the election. Then again, there will always be another campaign season and election and there will probably never be a time when the two parties will agree on anything more substantive then the volume of TV ads.