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Caterwauling, Or Monologues From The World’s Greatest Deliberative Clownshow
Senator after senator orated their “opening statements”, a criminally tortured bit of nomenclature for the wholly predictable monologues
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate” quipped Will Rogers. “Now what’s going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?”
I know what will proceed whatever it is fate has for us, at least as far as the United States Senate is concerned: monologuing.
Yes, the self-styled “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” had the full attention of the political world today and spent the better part of 6 hours monologuing. You know monologuing, the habit of someone to go on, in detail, whether you want them too or not, about their plans and motivations for doing whatever it is they are about to do. The worst part of monologuing is that you already know everything the monologuer is going to say, but are compelled to sit through it anyway. Which is why it was a plot device/send up back when the original Incredibles movie came out.
Thus, we come to today’s senatorial festivities, mistakenly titled The Senate Judiciary Committee Confirmation Hearings for Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination for the Supreme Court. What it…
