As you may have noticed, I have something of a love/hate relationship with legislators. On the one hand, I want to applaud them for being willing to take on the Augean Stables that is modern politics. But my other hand wants to punch their lights out for trying to do it on horseback.

Learn from Hercules, folks. Serious cleanup requires more imagination than riding in on Trigger with a shovel in your hand. Trigger and the shovel just cancel each other out. It’s a holding action at best.