Keeping perspective is always wise

Today, few of us would disagree with the observation that the Congress is a sad spectacle, two chambers filled with politicians consumed by "their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views." But you might be interested to know that Benjamin Franklin felt exactly the same way in 1787. The quoted words belong to him. They were delivered as part of a speech in Philadelphia, the day the US Constitution was ratified. Joe Scarborough put it this way: "America has followed the same working formula for 235 years — peace always follows rancor, order always replaces chaos, and out of many always comes one nation. As it was in the beginning so it is today."