As children we learned that honesty was the best policy. We laugh, but when politicians campaign saying one thing and then do the opposite it assaults the very foundation of our representative democracy.
Pundits are quick to blame the voters for the country's problems.
After all, they say, we elected the bums. But hold on. Jimmy Carter promised to balance the budget, but never submitted a balanced budget to Congress. Four years later he was defeated by Ronald Reagan, who likewise promised a balanced budget and never submitted one. Then George Bush promised he would not raise taxes.