This is a question David Gregory, Wolf Blitzer, Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the high society media would never think to ask… So I asked it.

I’ve been wondering… We’re about to commit $100 billion/yr to an ill-defined and little understood war in Afghanistan… We spent hundreds of billions to save the skins of Wall Street bankers and other paperwork pirates… But ask our government to spend a relative pittance to reduce a lot more suffering and save a lot more lives, and what happens? It turns out pulling the teeth of an unanesthetized lion may be easier…

What does that say about the health of our Democracy? I asked a few Senators…