The Idiots and Clowns on Capitol Hill

By: Cliff Kincaid

I heard Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito on the Brian Kilmeade radio show declare that people are mad as hell, and that Republicans are in deep trouble because they are the incumbents and run Congress. An unpopular president campaigning for them will only make the problem worse.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is not up for reelection, but in an ominous sign, he was heckled with chants from Texas fans of “Ted, you suck!” during a college football game-day broadcast. His topic was the “Protect College Sports Act,” a measure that has absolutely no relevance to the lives of ordinary Americans. Why is Congress wasting time on that?

The geopolitical situation is deteriorating, interest rates are rising, and socialists are taking over the Democratic Party. And we should be worried about college sports?

In addition to working on college sports, Cruz has been writing books. They include:

Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas. New York: Sentinel, 2026.
Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2022.
One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2020.
A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America. New York: Broadside Books, 2015.
Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2023.

It is amazing to me that a sitting senator has that much time to spend on writing books. Some of them may be good. I haven’t read them. All I know is that Senators, in my view, should spend their time working on legislation, not books.

By the way, over 40 sitting U.S. Senators have published at least one book.

I don’t know about you, but I find that to be self-serving and irrelevant to the job they are supposed to be doing for “the people.” Frankly, I am also getting tired of the silly Senator, John Kennedy of Louisiana, who also has a book out and is making TikTok videos. His book, How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will, is an indictment of him and his colleagues. He is known for his “zingers.”

Of course, Republicans aren’t the only ones we need to blame for the clown show on Capitol Hill.

Consider that we are at a crossroads in America financially, at a time when hedge fund operators like George Soros want to phase out the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency and bring the U.S. into a system of international socialism.

I regarded the rise of cryptocurrency as an alternative investment strategy for those concerned about the $40 trillion debt (on track to surpass $50 trillion by 2033) and the fate of the dollar. But a crypto regulatory framework with a market structure and dollar-backed stablecoin legislation was just defeated in the Senate.

The Big banks, which enjoyed record profits of almost $300 billion in 2025, defeated the Clarity Act to provide that framework because crypto represents competition. Their allies were the Democrats.

Another problem we face is utter stupidity on the Democrat side.

Columnist Frosty Wooldridge’s column, “The Utter Incompetence and/or Criminality of Many of Our Elected Leaders,” should be required reading in this regard. I had to read it two times and then had to “fact-check” one item to be absolutely convinced of how stupid members of Congress can be. I had missed this controversy originally. He noted that House Member Hank Johnson (D-GA) had said in a videotaped speech in Congress that he was worried that too many people on one side of Guam could tip the island into the ocean.

Wooldridge commented, “He’s that dumb! He could not pass a high school geography test if his life depended on it.”

Wooldridge explained, “In 2010, U.S. Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) suggested during a congressional hearing that the island of Guam could ‘tip over and capsize’ if too many people moved onto it.” Johnson said, “My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”

Yes, that is an accurate quote. I dug deeper, only to discover that during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on March 25, 2010, Johnson questioned Admiral Robert Willard about a proposal to station roughly 8,000 U.S. Marines on Guam.

The exact exchange from the official record transpired as follows:

Rep. Johnson: “This is a[n] island that at its widest level is what… twelve miles from shore to shore? And at its smallest level… uh, smallest location… it’s seven miles between one shore and the other? Is that correct?”

Adm. Willard: “I don’t have the exact dimensions, but to your point, sir, I think Guam is a small island.”

Rep. Johnson: “Very small island, about twenty-four miles, if I recall, long… My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”

Adm. Willard: “We don’t anticipate that…”

Later, Johnson denied suggesting Guam would physically flip over into the ocean. He said he was speaking of the “ecosystem” on the small island.

Whether it’s stupidity, incompetence, or something else, what accounts for the fact that, 25 years after 9/11, the mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has still not stood trial? He had been captured on March 1, 2003, in Pakistan.

When I reflect on what is happening on Capitol Hill and in general in the federal government, I tend to think that developing a “superintelligence” might be our only hope. I’ll pick AI over the clowns and idiots on Capitol Hill. In the meantime, Republicans should expect a wipeout in November. They may be able to save college sports, but they will not be able to save themselves.