March 18, 2022
Congress’s St. Patrick’s Day luncheon exposed our dreadful political class
By Andrea Widburg
There are two types of hereditary aristocracy. One has a sense of noblesse oblige (i.e., it maintains its privileges by serving the people) and the other is parasitical, superficial, and disgusting. Our current federal politicians act like the second type. Exhibit A for the fact our political class needs to be voted out, is the writhingly bad performances from Biden and Pelosi at the annual St. Patrick’s Day lunch, along with a celebratory spirit at odds with America’s slow, seemingly inexorable collapse.
The event was the annual Friends of Ireland St. Patrick’s Day luncheon in the Capitol. According to Wikipedia, the original purpose of the bipartisan event, which Ted Kennedy, Daniel Moynihan, and Tip O’Neill inaugurated in 1981, was to support peace in Northern Ireland. It’s attended by the President, Vice President, Speaker, the Irish prime minister, and other officials. I gather that, nowadays, it’s just a nice party.
There’s nothing wrong with a nice party, but this year’s event had the feeling of a nice party in the closing days of Rome when the political leaders were mad and bad, and their ostentation contrasted badly with the austerity the incompetent political class had imposed upon the beleaguered Roman people.
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