Farce Turns to Tragedy in the House
WASHINGTON -- Once upon a time, politics was a great spectator sport or theater, with characters carved in marble for the ages. The marble just cracked in the Capitol.
Thanks, Republicans.
The Senate prides itself on debate and decorum "across the aisle." The People's House was circuslike and lively, fun when Speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wielded the gavel.
Not that I loved the House of Representatives less, but I loved the Senate more.
Yet in February's drear days, we saw farces play out in both chambers -- farces that border on tragic.
The House has a rookie Republican speaker, Mike Johnson from Shreveport, Louisiana.
Johnson looks the part, but a "Moses" complex blinds him to hard reality.
In a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, an incompetent leader who often confuses himself with Moses as a lawgiver would be hilarious.
Not so much now.
Johnson presided over an absurd impeachment vote, targeting Alejandro Mayorkas, the Homeland Security secretary. Republicans lost by one, a source of glee for House Democrats.
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