Gene Healy: D.C. is capital of the absurd

Like most of this company town, I’m addicted to Netflix’s Beltway “telenovela,” “House of Cards,” starring Kevin Spacey as a conspiratorial House majority whip. But the show unwittingly flatters D.C., depicting a city of ruthless, steely competence. The real thing is a clown show consumed by trivialities.

On his way into work Friday, a friend heard the Senate chaplain’s cry for help, broadcast over WTOP: “As we anticipate across-the-board budget cuts across our land, we still expect to see your goodness prevail,” Pastor Barry Black pleaded from the Senate floor, “O God, and save us from ourselves.”