Political Nuts In A Nutshell Updated

"I'm genuinely afraid that the ruling cohort, and those who enable it by participating in the political process, have so much lost touch with the realities that we face that they are incapable of looking at an issue like Iraq, or 9/11, or the economic straits we have spent and borrowed ourselves into as a nation except as a foothold in climbing over the person in front of them. I imagine a small table of gentlemen and -women, playing whist on a train as it heads out over a broken bridge. The game, of course maters more than anything, and the external events - they're just an effort to distract they players from their hands." [ Sadly, Armed Liberal's summary has stood the test of time all too well. I hope my latest political summary -- with equal offense to all -- doesn't stand up as well but I fear it will: Inane venality versus witless perfidy mediated by cynical narcissism. -ed. ]