Posted 4:51 PM by Gene

I'm sorry now I linked to this story, but one can almost understand the attitude. Yes, America's royalty showed up to honor the football hero, and Henry the K let people know that he's still far more powerful than he ought to be. But since Harry Truman, and with only several fitful breaks -- Kennedy, who was killed before he could show his full potential; and Reagan, whom history helped -- we've been ruled by chowderheads, first a football hero, then a paranoiac, than another paranoiac, then another football hero, then a PC preacher, then a wimp, then SLICK, then WIMP the II -- a procession of noble leadership that flat out blew it. Our morass reflects their incompetence. I think that's why I resent that the feds took the day off, another day off with pay, and no mail, all so we'd be forced to remember a less-than-mediocre president who didn't help the southeast Asians while doing a friend a favor. I could understand thus honoring Ike, who at least served nobly in the War, but looking at the pictures of the highly self-regarding Washington elite (like the one above) I felt my gorge rising. On top of this Sen. Whine and Sen. Campaign Finance made bipartisan noises. "Both understand the need to change the way D.C. operates," Sen. Whine's spokesman said, meaning two more years of Beltway contempt. I am not, as our late president no doubt said many times, a happy camper. Did he invent the line?