Parliament outshines Congress

Having watched several clips of British Parliament in action I was immediately struck by the spontaneity and vitality of those benighted gentlemen across the Atlantic in sharp contradistinction to the staid lethargy and hangdog hopelessness of our own crowd who happen to now be occupying the great halls of the United States Congress.

The lot of them in D.C. look like either transparent charlatans, anti-intellectuals who would fail the simplest introductory course in logic given at a state university, or else courtly half-senile gentlemen from the Southern states who believe the climate — both intellectual and physical— will remain or at least should ought to remain as it was in the late 18th century when America first struck a blow for the free world.

Now I realize that this is a rather cynical portrait of our honored representatives who serve in the House and Senate, but there you have it. My brand of cynicism is merely the result of years of experience trying to earn a living in a country where national policy has done not an iota for the working men and women from Maine to California, from Florida to Washington.

Donald Gardner Stacy

Spokane