Blithering idiots, redux . . .

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the most recent pearl of wisdom to drop from the ass lips of a politician, following agreement between the House and Senate on a revised financial reform bill.

"It's a great moment. I'm proud to have been here," said a teary-eyed Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee led the effort in the Senate. "No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we've done something that has been needed for a long time."

Verily, the mind doth boggle.

"No one will know until this is actually in place how it works."

Does this blithering idiot have any idea what he's saying? If you don't know how it works, Senator, why the hell are you voting for it??? Is it possible for a politician to be so unbelievably, colossally STUPID that he thinks this statement actually sounds like it came from a national leader, instead of a verbally incontinent imbecile?

It ranks with an earlier pronouncement by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi about health care reform legislation:

“You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. ... But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."

Where, oh, where do we get such leaders? Which demon inflicted them upon us? What did we do to deserve such punishment? I ask you with tears in my eyes . . .

I'm not picking on the Democratic Party, either, despite the fact that both of the politicians I've quoted are Democrats. The Republican Party has members just as obnoxious and incompetent. No, my despair is at the (lack of) quality of leadership in Washington in general. Senator Dodd and Speaker Pelosi are merely the most public examples of our failure to elect leaders, men and women of real quality, to the highest offices of public service.

Unless we can throw all the rascals out this November, irrespective of their political affiliation, and elect more competent servants of the people - preferably those with at least half a brain! - we're doomed.

Peter