The new normal

When you see what is going on now in the United States -- another debt ceiling fiasco, the Obamacare implementation, and the Republicans going insane and taking the country with them -- it makes Canadian politics seem just so normal.
All we have going on now are the usual craziness -- election scandals, cheques to mobsters and deliberately subverting the FOIA -- while Dear Leader makes empty threats to the United States and writes a book about hockey instead of actually, you know, running the country.
Just business as usual, really ....