Snow Gaetz and His Seven Dwarfs

The recent circus in the US Congress, when Republican Mark Gaetz and his Seven Dwarfs shot their leader -- with the connivance of every Democrat there and voting  -- they managed to hit another victim: funding for Ukraine's defense against Vladimir Putin. The effect, as Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal this morning, was like seeing Julius Caesar assassinated by Groucho Marx.

What a commentary on American leadership! In the White House we have a president who slow-walks every delivery of military aid to the people fighting against Russian aggression, and in the Congress we have these eight clowns whose only accomplishment this week was to freeze the money that would pay for the next tranche of aid.