Where are the adults?

I don’t like you so I am not going to play with you or have you on my team. Sound like playground antics? Well this is coming from our elected political figures.

All the while this is going on, our country is crumbling ....... its citizens being fed fear and lies while many struggle to put food on the table or maintain a roof over their heads. This immature and juvenile behavior belongs on the grade school playground not in the hallowed halls of our government.

In the state of Montana legislators proposed some of the most outrageous laws ever heard about:

Legalize hunting with hand-thrown spear (Senate Bill 112)
Eliminate educational requirements for persons seeking job of State Superintendent of Schools (HB 154)
Omit Barack Obama’s name from the 2012 ballot because his father was born outside of America (House Bill 205)
Allow guns in schools (House Bill 558)
And Lift the prohibition on carrying concealed weapons in bars, churches and banks (House Bill 384)

Let’s face reality. These laws seem like the kind of things you would expect to hear from two drunks sitting at the bar after a day of Alabama slammers instead of coming from supposedly sober elected officials.

All across the US have had some pretty outrageous laws proposed by the new tea party freshmen. Most are directed at challenging the authority of the federal government to execute powers that are granted by the Constitution.

Experts doubt the current bills will have much practical impact or leave a long-term legacy, but that doesn't stop them from being proposed.

"These bills are nothing but symbolic grandstanding for conservative constituents," says Erwin Chemerinksy, Dean of the Law School at the University of California at Irvine. "States cannot violate federal law or authorize the violation of federal law. The laws are clearly unconstitutional, but that does not keep conservative politicians from introducing them."

What is needed is a level of sanity to return to state and federal capitols and for those elected to office to focus on the concerns of their constituents and not push their personal priorities.

For those who were elected based on a platform of job creation ..... what are you doing to fulfill your promises?