In America, it's who you know, not what you've done, that counts

Somebody should tell the children the truth. In America today, it's who you know, not what you've done that counts:

HOUSTON – In a case some say reveals political backscratching at the courthouse, a Texas Supreme Court justice saw his arson-related indictment thrown out Friday at the request of a scandal-plagued, but fellow Republican, prosecutor.

The move outraged the grand jury foreman, who threatened to reconvene the panel and issue the charges again.

The rule of law.