In the Cure’s post-punk/alternative tune, “10:15 Saturday Night,” singer Robert Smith expressed the feeling of time crawling by, dropping the perfectly apt metaphor of a leaky faucet.
He intones that “[he’s] sitting in the kitchen sink, and
The tap drips
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip [etc.]
That’s been the experience the House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson have endured while waiting days on end for the Senate to send over actual copies of the $106 billion combination aid package for Israel and Ukraine, along with border security. My colleague Mike Miller wrote about Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) blasting senior Democrats in the Upper Chamber, especially Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (and Mitch McConnell) over the boondoggle of a bill, directing an exasperated “Hell, no!” at “….the Law Firm of Schumer & McConnell (‘The Firm’), which is perpetually…
