It was ridiculous when Senator Orrin Hatch read a quotation from Disney’s Robin Hood to oppose the Obama budget back in April:

But Chuck Grassley’s disquisition on the battle between “Sir Tax-a-lot” and “the massive, fire-breathing Debt and Deficit Dragon” — complete with giant cartoon-style posters from Kinko’s — might be the most inane use of visual aids in the history of the United States Senate:

World’s greatest deliberative body indeed.