Boehner Slow Brainer?

Only asking. But here we have--or the United States has--the person who, as Speaker of the House, is second in line for the Presidency, should anything happen, God forbid, to the Chief Executive, and so far he has shown mainly an ability to weep on cue. 

In group meetings, the man with the lime green necktie has the uncomfortable look of someone who doesn't understand what is being said, the manner of a student who hopes desperately not to be called on, for not only does he not have the answer, he didn't understand the question. One feels that if President Obama makes a joke, he has to hurry back to Eric Cantor to see whether it's okay to laugh. 

This is dispiriting for those of us with American roots, but then one remembers this is a nation that once had Dan Quayle as Vice-President. This is a country where, according to recent polls, 51 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born outside the USA and 42 percent of Democrats believe that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney either planned or knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks.

And is the intelligence level significantly higher in Canadian politics? 

Oh, woe. Time for some jazz--maybe Miles Davis's "So What?"