Did you ever wonder about what constitutes a full barrel? Newscasters plague us with the costs of a barrel of crude oil which holds about 42 gallons. Being regulated by customs or laws a barrel of wine holds about 31 1/2 gallons—a 1/2 gallon more than a 31 gallon of beer.

Nowadays, Congress seems to be composed of a barrel full of monkeys—without offering us a barrel full of laughs. Their recent decisions have left us hanging over a barrel. In the olden days that meant “dragged over a barrel, getting a flogging and helpless with little chance of choice”

However, in this day and age we have a choice. Just because a few rotten apples can spoil a barrel is no reason that with our votes we can’t let them have it with both barrels.

Also, it seems as if some of the members of the Supreme Court have been scraped from the bottom of the barrel. We can stop staring down the barrel of a gun by voting for Senators who will take all of this bull by the horns and will strengthen our laws.

If the American voters will come out and vote in large numbers, we can rid ourselves of lies, and the self-serving politicians (both locally and nationally) who disdain the Constitution of the United States and crave tyrannical power.

It’s as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.

Esther Blumenfeld