The Beautiful People?

You've really got to hand one to C-SPAN. Watching our elected representatives at work will occasionally earn the bored viewer a surprise or two. Those emotional and long-winded tirades sometimes offer insight into a subject you wouldn't otherwise consider. For example, when nearly any topic that involves a social problem or crime rates is brought to the floor, somebody must give a speech about the "way things were" - that Golden Age where the paper's headline was never bad news, where our kids were free to walk the streets without fear, and where nobody locked their doors at night.

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