Groucho Camp, Harpo Cantor, and Chico Boehner

Well, that's it. We're now in a Marx Brothers movie.

Or at any rate we can no longer distinguish the Marx Brothers' 'Duck Soup' -- in which fictional Freedonia is governed, so to speak, by a tiny and newly installed consortium of misfits and nincompoops -- from the U.S. House of Representatives, a regrettably nonfictional institution governed, so to speak, by a tiny and newly installed consortium of misfits and nincompoops.

Let's try a blind comparison test.

Said a government official from one of the above:

This vote, based on legislation I’ve introduced, will and must fail.

Said another:

The last man nearly ruined this place, he didn't know what to do with it.
If you think this country's bad off now, just wait 'til I get through with it.

So which was which, who was who, what was what? Was it Rufus T. Firefly urging his fellow representatives to vote in breathless opposition to his own legislation that he insisted must surely and rightfully die? Or, perhaps more realistically, was it GOP Rep. Dave Camp presaging this country's fate in the hands of his party's determined yokels and fools?

Ah, you're ahead of me. Trick questions. The correct question is, Does it make any difference? And the answer is self-evident.

Comments

[Susan Zoon]

LOL, Phil- they've been in Marx Bros. mode for quite a while. For example, when it comes to any program the President proposes:
"Whatever it is, I'm against it!
No matter who proposed it or defensed it.
I'm against it."