Lookin’ for Loopholes
There’s a story about W.C.Fields, at the end of his life, when a friend visited him in the hospital. Fields was deep in study of the Bible.
“Bill, what are you doing? You’re an atheist.”
Fields looked up, eyes moist.
“Lookin’ for loopholes.”
The newly sworn Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is off to a terrible start and the start hasn’t even started. She has shown herself to be petty, unforgiving, closed to the give and take of governance and a Class B conniver, all before sitting down in the chair. The absurd goal of achieving mostly Democratic goals in the first 100 hours of the 110th Congress, proves how little she understands the message of the mid-term elections. Now she has relegated herself, along with Fields, to looking for loopholes in her pre-election assurances.
Error number one was the well documented and much written about failure to seat Jane Harmon as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Harmon, a fellow Democrat and fellow Californian rated the Chair by t…