Former Senator Alan Simpson, speaking truth

Journalist and writer Fareed Zakaria had a brief interview with former Senator Alan Simpson yesterday and I thought the way Sen. Simpson closed the interview was insightful: ZAKARIA: Senator, a real pleasure to have you on. I hope we can have you on again. SEN SIMPSON: "Well, I hope you'll stick around, because you speak with clarity and you - and you ask great questions and you don't get caught up in all the garbage on the extreme right and extreme left. People - Erskine and I go around the country and we can speak to any group, right or left. Give us an hour, let them ask questions. We'll get a standing ovation because people are thirsting for somebody to give them something other than BS or mush. And both parties are giving the - giving the American people BS and mush. And they're sick of it. And something is going to happen. I don't know what it is, but people are smarter than their politicians. They always have been. And we'll see what happens." Link to original post, inlcuding video of the interview: http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/09/former-senator-alan-simpson-on-americas-failing-politicians/