Not exactly a Churchillian exchange was it? I guess that the quality of our pols has gotten lower with the general quality of our culture. Oh, and California’s still in debt and getting worse.
Yes, all the offspring of the anti-establishment/counter-culture policy of the radicals in the 1960’s.
Still can’t beat the exchange of insults on the floor of parliament between John Montague, Earl of Sandwich and John Wilkes:
(Montagu) “Egad sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox (venereal disease).”
(Wilkes) “That will depend, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”