It is all very dispiriting. “I wish the answer were as simple as Dick The Butcher’s …The first thing we do, is we kill all the lawyers,” from Shakespeare’s Henry VI. But tempting as that may be, I doubt it’s the solution. Have you looked at the lawyers sitting in congress these days? We have one congressman who questioned the wisdom of landing some military people on Guam because it could cause Guam to tip over into the sea. He even used hand gestures to aid us in visualizing the possibility. We have a high-ranking congresswoman from New York who at a meeting with the President on health care spoke about two elderly sisters (her constituents) who shared one pair of false teeth…and when one of the sisters died while wearing the teeth the other sister had to take the teeth out of her dead sister…(surely this could have waited for some more opportune time…like a restroom break?)
We have talented people in our nation, I cite Victor Davis Hanson for one. But can you imagine Dr. Hanson or any intelligent person having to discuss matters of state with these morons? I’m sure the talented among us would refuse to run for office on grounds of maintaining their sanity. Then there are senators like Kerry and Schumer. I wouldn’t go into the men’s room if I saw one of these oddjobs heading in that direction: Kerry because he’d likely hog the mirror disdainfully, possibly causing it to shatter; and Schumer because he probably talks while he pees, in that annoying nasal tone of his. I’m sorry, but there seems to be no way out of this mess. Unless maybe Dick The Butcher was right.
