At the same time, as Nancy Pelosi, like Barbara Boxer, and Diane Feinstein before her, leaves “government service” and retires? Can we be thankful and at the same time offer imprecatory prayers?

And share a cartoon like this one, shared with us by Bob Malone?

Clearly, Ms. Pelosi has benefited greatly from her service “to the people.” And her district in California. The value of her service to them? Far outweighed by the value she accrued in her service. Of course, we can laughingly point out she could have become a billionaire if she’d gone to work on Wall Street with her uncanny ability to predict the future value of shares.

She cannot be gone from the halls of Congress fast enough for us. But she has hundreds of colleagues, regardless of political loyalty (or pretend loyalty) who also cannot go away fast enough. She will not change the corrupt, cowardly character of the institution. We here at TPOL do not know what will!

Dear Ms. Nancy is the perfect example of Mark Twain’s comment: America has no native criminal class except for Congress.

FYI: Imprecatory prayer is something best explained by an example: Tevia in Fiddler on the Roof praying for the Czar: “May the Lord God keep the Czar … far, far away from us!

Note: we’ll be on limited publication the next several weeks! The reason we missed the last couple of days: on the road and a boatload of work!