Leaders Of The Free World

That was quite the cluster fuck at the Iowa Statehouse yesterday.

Statehouse under lockdown, HazMat team to test substance

Representative Ako Abdul-Samad received a letter, that was opened on the floor of the House, that contained a white powder.

Instead of immediately addressing a serious situation state representatives and members of the public walked around the Capitol and some even left the building.

House leadership in both parties failed, as did state public safety officials and the scientific community is united in that fact.

This is what passes for leadership on the Senate side --

“Don’t let those bastards in here. They’re House members for Christ’s sake,” Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal joked. 

These people are running state government, that's leadershit, not leadership.

We're a little over ten years removed from the anthrax attacks in this country, that occurred via mail, and it took from 3:47 p.m. to 4:55 p.m to close down the building.

That process should have begun no later than 3:48 p.m.