oops ... now am being told this is (d) louise slaughter. She is the one with the infestation of fleas.
Here is something hopeful: Bill Carroll on KFI am640 just was talking about Obama. Usually he is very carefully down the middle, often very supportive of Obama (possibly so carefully because he isn’t an American and trying to be “fair”, and I don’t think his audience is as Conservative as other hosts). Well, today he said that Obama talks about compromise and says he will negotiate “anything,” except for the one thing Republicans want him to. And then he called Obama a jerk, kind of: how can Obama call Boehner out so completely on national TV, and expect him to ever deal with him? Obama acted like a total jerk. (Paraphrasing)
I find that from someone not on our side of the aisle encouraging; possibly Americans are catching on in enough numbers.