When The Roll Is Called Up In D.C.

Continuing to vie for the Nobel Prize in chutzpah, the White House today announced the award of eight new Presidential Medals of Freedom. Among the winners is Harper Lee, author of that classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. I suspect that Miz (as we used to say down here) Lee is too genteel to tell George III what he can do with "his" medal. But Harper, sister, even if you're willing to ignore the war criminal's horrors out of respect for the office he has disgraced, are you really willing to stand on the same stage with fellow recipient Henry Hyde? Please say it ain't so, ma'am.