Hecate:
I am a local elected official responding to your last comment excusing rank and file legislators who don't read long complex and complicated legislation being pushed through by the "leadership" in the closing hours of a long session because they (the rank and file legislator)don't have the time or the technical expertise to interpert all the information distributed via fact sheets and briefings.
That excuse sounds like the one the Democrats in Washington are using to whine about their stupid vote for the war that was based on bad information from a President they neither trusted or respected at the time. I think the Vice President has a point calling this kind of behavior "shameless, reprehensible, dishonest and corrupt".
I know I read every single local ordinance before I have to vote on it, and carry out some independent research to boot. If I'm suspicious of bad information, I move to postpone the vote or if I lose the postponement, I abstain from the vote, and make a public statement accordingly. To behave otherwise is to take the first step on the road to perdition.
Hecate responds:
You are a practically perfect person, and the Road to Perdition is pretty crowded anyway.
Who is Hecate?
Hecate is a Greek Goddess who served as a guide and coach at the crossroads of Hades, where after crossing the River Styx, Greek souls found themselves facing three choices: the Elysian Fields, abode of the great and heroic; the Fields of Asphodel, for all who had led a blameless but ordinary life; or to Tartarus, a sunless land of punishment for criminals.
Hecate's best known role in Greek mythology was guiding Persephone, the goddess of spring, on her annual journeys between Hades and Earth. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Hecate is portrayed as a nurturing and protective guide for Persephone on those annual journeys.
