Grab Your Goat And Get Your Hat

Mark Steyn writes that “Impudent citizens got Sen. Lotthorn’s goat”:

Sen. Trenthorn Lotthorn, meanwhile, thinks America is a nation of goatless girls. They don’t understand goats the way an experienced goat-farmer such as himself does. “If the answer is ‘build a fence,’ ” Sen. Lotthorn declared, “I’ve got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain’t no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, that you can keep those goats in that fence.

“Now, people are at least as smart as goats,” the senator told Mario Recio of the Sun Herald. “Maybe not as agile. Build a fence? We should have a virtual fence. Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple of times they quit trying to jump it. I’m not proposing an electrified goat fence,” the Lottly Goatherd added. “I’m just trying