Now and then, I listen to the morning call in shows on C-Span. I listened this morning, when there was no guest and the call in question was: What would you like to see Congress do as a priority?

This was not a question designed to result in any new emphases in public policy, but there were a few callers who took the question seriously. Not that they had thought out their knee jerk responses, but at least they thought they knew what they wanted: a closed border, or no more federal debt, or some form of gun control. But then there were, probably even more than usual, the wackos.

The hands down winner of the wacko of the day award was the guy who wants Congress to stop spending so much time concentrating on Christopher Columbus, taking down all of his statues. Instead, he insists, they should be concentrating on Amerigo Vespucci, “who owned many more slaves than Columbus”. Amerigo’s name, he said, should be eliminated everywhere it appears. So, the United States of ___________, or maybe just the United States? Say, what?

There was another fellow who described himself as a life-long, blue-dog Democrat. But one who disagreed with Clinton when he signed NAFTA in 1992, and who thinks that the Democrats haven’t done one thing right in more than 30 years. What does he want Congress to do? He didn’t get that far. Say, what?

There was the lady who wanted both term limits and an age after which anyone in Congress has to resign. The age? She thought 65 might work, after all that’s when most people retire. And there was an 87 year old lady somewhere in Massachusetts who seems to think that is making every problem worse than it was and, boy, can she reel off a list of problems.

That’s when I turned it off. But this afternoon, I was in the car and I turned the radio back on. Again to C-Span. This time to the NRA convention in Indianapolis. I learned that the president of the NRA thinks that Wayne LaPierre should be beyond criticism. I learned that the wife of the governor of Louisiana shoots wild boars from a helicopter. But most of all, I learned the Mike Pence suffers from serious problem for a man who was so close to the presidency. Mike Pence as a VERY SMALL MIND. A VERY VERY SMALL MIND. And I don’t think he knows.

I heard Pence speak to the NRA leadership council. He is not going to get into motives. He does not know why the “TRANS-person killed those kids”, and as to the fellow in Louisville? Why, he should have been in an asylum. In fact, what we need to do is institutionalize everyone with a mental health problem, say ex-Veep Pence. The radical left of the ’60s forced us to put these people on the streets, and we haven’t been the same yet. Lock ’em up, just not in the lock up.

What else does Pence think we should do? We should have armed guards in every school, for one thing. We should have universal concealed carry for another (presumably, this goes in the category, “as our forefathers wanted us to”). We should close the border, we should stop all abortion, we should get rid of liberal prosecutors who are encouraging all the raging crime in our streets. And yes, he is proud of the four year Trump-Pence administration and especially all the conservative judges we put on the courts, including the Supreme Court. Yes, Mike Pence has a VERY VERY SMALL MIND.