NK Tribune:

By BILL STRAUB

Northern Kentucky Tribune

In Animal House — a classic film about an anarchic and rebellious college fraternity that closely tracks the current-day House of Representatives under Republican control — there comes a crucial moment when one of the protagonists (protagonists is used advisably here) known as Otter, offers a famous call to action: “I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!”

So it is with the “people’s house” these days, a shambolic, unstable mess whose GOP members can’t find their backsides – or a Speaker, apparently — with both hands. Unable to pass an appropriations measure by the Oct. 1 deadline – it comes around this time every year, folks – and reacting only to the whims of an orange-hued maniac ensconced in Mar-a-Lago — except when he’s making one court appearance after another – these fumbling, stumbling lawmakers are pushing democracy to the brink.

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