Bob and Maureen McDonnell |
Things are a mess.
They sure feel like a mess, don’t they?
Chicago teeters on insolvency. Illinois hurtles toward its first anniversary of utter fiscal gridlock.
Nationally, the view is even more surreal, like some semi-obscene Dali painting come to life. This crude New York punchline has shanghaied the Republican Party. While the Democrats who aren’t still skipping happily toward Shangri-La behind Pied Piper Bernie Sanders, banging tambourines wrapped in ribbons, grimly assemble around scarred old campaigner Hillary Clinton, like yeomen clutching pointed staffs in a muddy field around Henry V, psyching themselves up to fight off the legions of bowl-haircut Middle American sexist idiocy for the next six solid months.
So I hate to point out another looming problem, one not on your radar yet. It won’t show up until June, maybe. But it bobbed to the surface of our national discourse last week before being flushed away by the next jaw-dropping set of bad news. Since you may have missed it, I feel compelled to pluck it out and hold it up, gingerly, between thumb and forefinger.
Bob McDonnell.
Name mean anything? Of course not. Don’t feel bad, it drew a blank with me too....
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Postscript: Wondering what happened? Read it and weep.