If you sent your congress (person) to Washington DC to major in sequestering, filibustering and stonewalling you must be pleased as punch right now. The nit-picking fractious body have not only exceeded your expectations, but they have done it to the exclusion of all other important business. Never in recent history has a congressional body done so little for so many, and felt perfectly justified in toting home the bacon for the effort.
In Jimmy Kimmel’s Kartoon piece a father (who sounds a lot like animated character Cleveland Brown) answers his son’s questions about important current events and what congress is doing to help us move through them. We learn that it’s more palatable to be told ‘You’re screwed, little dude’ in song.
The sensitivity to the word ‘congressperson’ comes hot on the heels of a new ‘gender neutral’ language bill in Washington State. Having solved crime, infrastructure, transportation and human services issues, this body spent six long years ensuring that no legislation or other important documents will slip and use the word ‘penmanship’ rather than ‘handwriting’ or refer to a ‘freshman’ instead of a ‘first year student.’ We’re screwed, little dude (er horizontally challenged person) – at all levels of government!