Yep, this is about as close as I get to politics. Any closer and it might bite me, or I might accidentally touch that pitch and be defiled . . . .
Also there seems to be something about DC that turns conservatives into wimps. I believe that part of the problem is that those in DC are in an echo chamber. And they seldom leave it. Congress was not supposed to be a full time job. Hence these people have no grounding in, or understanding of, real America. They become divorced from it. Power changes them.