Wherein I harken back to The American President…again

Because when events illustrate our similar vulnerabilities and need for an Andrew Shepard to remind us we are all in this together, we instead get the Bob Rumsons attempting to tear us apart:

I’ve knownBob Rumson John Derbyshire for years, and I’ve been operating under the
assumption that the reasonBob John devotes so much time and energy to
shouting at the rain was thathe simply didn’t get it. Well, I was
wrong. Bob’s problem isn’t that he doesn’t get it. Bob’s problem is
that he can’t sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and weneed
serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is,
I promise you, Bob Rumson John Derbyshire is not the least bit interested in solving
it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you
afraid of it and telling you who’s to blame for it. That, ladies and
gentlemen, is how you win elections.