Bob Dole & Lowell Weicker: 2 GOP Guys Trying to Save Us From Ourselves

Sat. June 16, 2013:

Dear Worthies, it's been 2 weeks since the last post.  Excuse:  Trip to the beautiful Midwest -- Carroll County, in northwest Illinois, near Ronald Reagan's upbringing in Dixon.

Then, a graveyard in Rockford, north-central Illinois:

Then, amazing hospitality from a large family in Chicago's 1873 "Park Ridge" early "streetcar suburb."  The whole Park Ridge residential block was vintage 1940's/1950's midwestern neighborliness, with canopies of huge trees shading the streets, and neighbors helping each other with yardwork & jokes.  A PERIOD PIECE, from a simpler time.

FOLKS, WE NEED TO SAVE OUR NATION FROM GOING DOWN THE TUBES.
Bob Dole and Lowell Weicker -- 2 oldtime Republicans -- are trying.

PLEASE LISTEN:


1.  Driving around after the Midwest, my radio served up an interview with 1970's former Connecticut Republican Senator Lowell Weicker -- of Watergate era fame.
He was saying that the biggest threat to our country right now -- bar none -- is today's Congressional dysfunction.

               Senators Ted Kennedy, Orrin Hatch, and Lowell Weicker -- A Dem. & 2 G.O.P. 


"In my day [1970's ff.], Dem. & GOP members of both Houses used to play tennis together and then go have dinner together.    Then, we'd have sufficient common respect & understanding to get the people's business done.  Today, the 2 sides won't even talk to each other -- let alone play tennis or have lunch together.  It better change, and fast, or we're doomed."



2.  "The Wisdom of Bob Dole":

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/opinion/bob-dole-misses-his-republican-party.html

                                               "Bob Dole Misses His Republican Party"