Bridging the great divide

BULLETIN FROM WASHINGTON DC

- JONATHAN KRONSTADT

The US has a long history of wildly unqualified and/or ill-suited candidates for our Senate, whose members like to call it – without irony, mind you – “the world’s greatest deliberative body”. James Buchanan coined that moniker and, until the orange dumbsicle came along, he was widely considered our worst-ever president (1857-61). Why, just in this infant millennium we’ve seen candidates who’ve “dabbled in witchcraft” and said rapes seldom result in pregnancies because “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down”.