Picking Up Our Marbles and Going Home
Strange things happen to those ordinary twerps who wrangle their way into the House of Representatives. They spend thirty years or so in that august companionship, get to be chairman of this or that utterly meaningless committee and begin to believe they are no longer ordinary twerps.
Henry Hyde, Chicago’s off-the-wall representative in the House of Similar Idiots (a.k.a. House of Representatives) has come up with another of his stem-winding solutions to the problems of the world. Hyde, you may remember, is the stalwart defender of the public who single handedly insisted on the impeachment of Bill Clinton and then was roundly embarrassed by the dearth of impeachable evidence. Thankfully, this aged crank is retiring, but not before leaving his name on yet another piece of landmark legislation The Henry J. Hyde United Nations Reform Act.
I include his photograph, which looks like he was posing for a sculptor, possibly the same one who didn’t sculpt Dan Rostenkowski, another Chicago st…