Let me make something clear.

I do NOT think that this is going to be "a lot of fun." I think that it's going to be another sad chapter in history, another demonstration of how greed for money and greed for power corrupt politics.

Politics is supposed to be the "art of the possible" and the art of compromise so that the best laws are passed. This is going to be another demonstration to the world that in the United States greed and corruption are the rule rather than the exception and that all you need to get into and hold office is money, money, money.

This is unfortunate, because there are some good people in office -- McCain, Obama, Feinstein, Snowe come to mind. Others are good people but misguided or misled.

Unfortunately there is also a crowd which can't seem to think beyond the dollars and what Kissinger called "the most powerful aphrodisiac."

I repeat -- this is NOT going to be "a lot of fund."

It's going to be -- and is -- a tragedy, with hubris and all.