Back in the day, Dwight Eisenhower, provoked beyond endurance by the right-wing posturing of forgotten California Republican mossback Sen. William Knowland, remarked that “With him there is no final answer to the question ‘How stupid can you get?’” With today’s Congress, there is no final answer to the question “How petty can you get?”
Politico reports on the brave fight of Alaska’s “influential” congressional delegation, all three of them, to prevent the Pentagon from deactivating an Alaskan combat unit of 2,600 soldiers, sorely needed, the Alaskans say, in case North Korean fat boy Kim Jong-il starts throwing his weight around.
“The arguments that a host of growing threats undercut the wisdom of fewer ground troops ultimately won out in Alaska,” Politico reporter Connor O’Brien tells us with a straight face, that being a current Beltway euphemism for “shameless congressional bullying and utterly parochial self-interest.” There’s a lot of that going around these days.
