A fundamentalist fanatic who works as a stenographer for the US Congress recently tried to preach the gospel of anti-Masonry on the House floor (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/17/stenographer-snaps-rants-on-house-floor/comment-page-28/). If there was no Federal government, people like her would have a free hand to purge American society of those who fail to worship the material Creator of the flat and immobile Earth.

I am truly sorry that "furrinners have been compelled to listen" as American politicians go through the ugly process of making fiscal sausage. I wish they had the same ability that we have to tune out the noise.