BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
Several conservative outside interest groups are engaged in a campaign to prevent Congressmen Fred Upton of Michigan and Jerry Lewis of California from becoming committee chairmen, Upton on Energy and Commerce and Lewis on Appropriations. That’s according to the Washington Times.
BY JOHN FEEHERY
I have a theory.
America is going through its version of a mid-life crisis.
According to Wikipedia, the term midlife crisis was first coined “in 1965 by Elliott Jaques and used in Western societies to describe a period of dramatic self-doubt that is felt by some individuals in the “middle years” or middle age of life…The result may be a desire to make significant changes in core aspects of day-to-day life or situation.”
How do people who are going through a mid-life crisis show it? The “acquisition of unusual or expensive items such as motorbikes, boats, clothing, sports cars, jewelry, gadgets, tattoos, piercings, etc.; depression; blaming themselves or their partner for their failures; paying special attention to physical appearance such as covering baldness, wearing “younger” designer clothes etc.; entering relationships with younger people (either/or sexual, professional, parental, etc.)”
Here are some signs that the nation is going through the political equivalent of a mid-life crisis: