Origins of Wednesday xii: L'amour, the insanity defense

  I'd be prepared to be a

  good deal merrier, giv-

  en the nature of my pri-

  vate day. But who knew?

  The week was not 2 days

  old when the Republican

  leadership disseminated

  its telltale vapours of

  superstition - against

  childhood immunization,

  this time - and steeped

  themselves in their 56th

  vote in the lower house

  against a right of ac-

  cess to health insur-

  ance, against 12 million

  new subscribers. Fumings

  of tropical tie-bred um-

  brage, our ick factor in
  excelsis: the ooze was on.

  Fumes we could chew, to 

  make even a Dixie carbon

  fetishist blush, signal-

  ling that the Party's

  infamous insanity test

  for leadership had come

  full circle as an insan-

  ity defense, for wanking

  on C-SPAN -- to reward,

  they were reported say-

  ing, their base. But we
  hear our priests, a fair
  amount, denouncing their
  flock as a temptress. Can 
  no one advise them, that

  with a foreplay this ad-

  vanced already, by St Val-
  entine's Day, there'll be

  too few left to deceive?

Taylor Cowan

United States capitol

The Washington Post©

30 January 2015