"A Bunch of Vindictive Childish Imbeciles" [View all]

[DFW]

I know an elderly Irish gentleman who is moderately wealthy and now lives in the Middle East. He rarely visits America, and has somewhat rightward-leaning political sentiments. I don't know him well--he is more of a friend of a friend.

Still I had him on the phone briefly today, and when I mentioned that I was in Washington for three days, he commented on the Republicans and their engineering of the shutdown. He said that he thought Obama was a "fine gentleman, indeed," and that the Congressional Republicans were acting like a "bunch of vindictive childish imbeciles."

Ah, yes, faith and begorrah, the Irish do still come up with some good ones.