“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”
That sentence is attributed to the late Groucho Marx of the wonderfully funny Marx Brothers comedy team, and couldn’t be truer.
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| The Marx Brothers |
Although active for 44-years,
until 1949, the Marx Brothers could make a garden rock laugh. Sometimes known as the ‘Thinking Man’s Three Stooges,”
Groucho,
Since the demise of both the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges decades ago, the world was left with a void in the comedy arena that seemed impossible to refill.
Until the Congressional elections, that is.
It seems as though there are many Congress people who appear to have taken the above-mentioned comedy chasm as a personal crusade to fill with their own brand of levity. And they have done so with aplomb.
The first on this list of aspiring entertainers is Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA). Rep. Schiff found his inspiration in comedy when Donald John Trump was elected President in 2016.
Through a series of fact contortions, Schiff, along with other smarmy Democrat politicians, began a campaign, instigated by Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, to discredit President Trump’s election.
“Collusion” was the catch-word of the succeeding four-years in Democrat efforts to dishonor President Trump and his constituents. During that time, Schiff made one joke after another.
Claiming to have “irrefutable
evidence” of collusion with the Russians, to steal the election from
Even then, Schiff insisted he was correct and many of his claims were taken out of context; unfortunately, the Congressional Federal Record printed every word from Schiff’s lips, and are now a matter of, well, federal record.
Next up is a woman named Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). Congress woman Lee is largely known for her arrogance among staffers and people not-of-color. Quick to rally the troops around topical matters, Lee seems to have a deaf ear when it comes to sexual harassment and workplace abuses.
Demanding to be known as “Queen Jackson,” Lee once forced a woman on a united Airlines flight to cede her seat to Lee. A subsequent social media post by the relocated flyer resulted in a public accusation of racism against African-American Lee, in reality, an African-American bully. But why be left out of the racism arena?
Being drunk with power and a limited vocabulary, Lee often uses words such as “racist,” “bigot,” “racist, and “racist,” to make her points, always humorous for people with an IQ above room temperature.
And then we reach Congressman Henry Calvin Johnson, Jr., aka: Hank Johnson (D-GA).
Johnson is best described as ‘a
hoot.’ In 2010, Johnson raised eyebrows
during a House Armed Services Committee hearing. That discussion regarded a planned military
buildup of Guam, a
In a seemingly feeble attempt to exude his intelligence, Johnson expressed concerns about this buildup to Adm. Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific fleet.
Johnson stated his “fear is that
the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and
capsize.” No lie. Mentally likening
Willard – with a semi-smile and semi-look of disbelief – tactfully responded, “We don’t anticipate that.” And that is why Willard is an admiral and Johnson is a laughingstock.
So when you hear pious
politicians pontificating about vaccines, higher taxes, inflation, critical
race theory, defunding the police, border control, Russian collusion, the
supply chain,
He may have been the great thinker before his time.
