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Stark Raving, Again
By Ed Driscoll · October 18, 2007 10:39 PM
· The Memory Hole · The Return of the Primitive · War And Anti-War
Nice to click on the stats counter and see a number of visitors from Breibart.tv: underneath their video of definitive San Francisco Democrat Congressman Pete Stark's latest mental adventure down the Rabbit Hole is a link back to our May 2004 post quoting an earlier moment of Fortney's verbal extemporization. Stark is sort of the Spock's Beard version of a fellow Democrat Joe Biden, a Senator of whom Jonah Goldberg has noted, is "famous for his brain’s chronic inability to hold brake fluid": Once he revs his engines, the motormouth can’t be stopped, and he just keeps talking and talking and talking. My theory is that those constant smiles where he displays his shiny fake teeth are the facial equivalent of flashing your brights while driving, signaling to those in Biden’s path, “I can’t stop this thing!”But both are a reminder of something that P.J. O'Rourke once wrote about one house of Congress: "The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take 100 of its most prominent numskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm".Needless to say, that description is equally appropriate for wide swatches of the other house as well.
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