The midterm election is just around the corner. Whether living conditions have improved or not since the last election is the normal gauge of whether one votes one way or another. In other words, if things got better since the last election, you re-elect the current establishment. If things got worse, you vote for the other guy. Simple, right? No. Not really.

Now at least 12 GOP senators are on board with overturning the election, over 100 House Republicans, and Pence has joined the chorus. Analyze each of these Republicans and they fall into 3 distinct and often overlapping categories.

A woman from Texas, driving a Volkswagen Beetle, pulls up next to a Rolls Royce at a stop sign. Their windows are open and she yells at the guy in the Rolls, "Hey, you got a telephone in that Rolls?"

"Dear wife, thanks for making my life wonderful, you are my angel, thanks for making me worth living! You are great and wonderful."

A guy was being sold a very cheap suit. "But the left arm is a lot longer than the right arm," he complained.

King of the Hill: Disclosure alone won’t topple campaign money as the ruler of Congress – Not Long ago the Clinton Administration crowed about agreements with a number of countries to curb bribery in business abroad. Wide implementation of measures such as tax-deductibility of bribes is still a long march away.

If you can start the day without caffeine, if you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, if you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles...