Braindead in DC

If you're anything like me, you probably don't have a lot of respect for politicians. Hell, if you walk on two legs and bananas aren't your favorite food, then you almost certainly hate politicians as a breed. Sure, there are exceptions: some are honest, smart, and virtuous. Like...um...that guy from...well, I'm sure you can think of one or two. Regardless, the fact is politicians really mostly are a notch above cockroaches on the evolutionary totem pole (just as disgusting, able to live in filth, but unable to survive nuclear winter...okay, maybe they're one notch below). As if you needed further proof, I just came across this article at work (which, by the way, reminds me every day how much the non-profit world needs some real competition).

A choice gem:

10. Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Bunning is a Hall of Fame pitcher who, during his eight years in office, has shown "little interest in legislation that doesn't concern baseball," writes Time magazine. And Kentucky doesn't even have a major-league baseball team. His campaign style is so completely unhinged that political observers openly speculated in 2004 that the then-73-year-old was suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's. "His is a tragic case of descent into senility," says one Hill staffer, "except without the 'descent' bit." To scotch the rumors, Bunning was forced to hold a press conference and offer up doctor's reports.

Of course, I could have told you that the idiots in office are dwindling into senility. I personally attended a number of committee hearings, two summers ago, and had to endure Robert "I left my brain with the Grand Wizard" Byrd speaking. The man is MAD. Off his rocker. Loopy. Nuts, bonkers, demented, a kook, daffy, wacky, and weird. He started off talking about how some bill was important to his hickstate, er home state, of West Virginia, then devoled into babble that his preacher had told him upon his adult baptism a half century earlier. In one breath, he claimed that he had been in the Senate since 1947, then turned around and said, "Having served in this Senate since 1952..."

What? Those two dates aren't even six years apart! I was in the back of the room, so I couldn't see who was keeping the saliva from running down his chin, but there must have been someone since he was a driveling buffoon.

Lord. Anyway. Read the article. You'll hate politicians even more. Which is good.

P.S. Statesmanship today is a crock.