BTW, and this is not meant as a critique of anyone here, but I am way past calling them “Congress critters.” That term, to me, implies at least some bemusement or “there, there” tolerant indulgence of folly. And I am done with that. Disgust, contempt, cold fury … kind of like what you feel for the a**hat who obliterates a family of six after 17 DUI arrests. These people have been getting away with far too much for far too long. We are talking about the wholesale destruction of citizens’ jobs, life savings, futures, property … entire industries and vast swaths of the economy. Oh yah, let’s not forget that little thing called liberty.

They are looters. Once upon a time, when we were a nation flush with wealth and a future filled with promise of same, we could afford to look the other way as Mr. and Ms. Senator pocketed the silver salt & pepper shakers and the occasional shrimp fork. But for pete’s sake, they have now taken the entire service setting, the china, the food, the candles, and the linens, and are working on devising a way to dismantle the furniture so as to carry that out with them, too.

At what point does this behavior cease to be amusing?

Sorry, but I am in a rotten mood today. A thousand grains of sand and all that.