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Well, with all the events of the last few weeks, (the continuing disaster of Obamacare, Senate and Iran both going nuclear) the following story went mostly unreported in the press.

But I think it’s worth a look.

Because it illustrates something that Tammy has pointed out:

If you are still a Democrat… SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU!

Here’s what happened:

As you probably recall, one of Obama’s first acts as POTUS (besides killing the school voucher program, so that poor black kids would not be able to get a decent education) was to return a bust of Winston Churchill that had been loaned to the Bush WH after 9/11. As The Telegraph reported:

A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government’s art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back.

The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush’s tenure.

But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: “Thanks, but no thanks.”

However, three weeks ago, another bust of Winston Churchill was placed, permanently, in a ceremony in the Freedom Foyer of the U.S. Capitol.

As The Weekly Standard reported:

According to a congressional aide, Boehner discovered when he became House speaker in 2011 that the Freedom Foyer “had room for at least two more busts.” For months, “we had a running conversation about who we should place there. We kept coming back to Churchill.”

Boehner has been “a big fan his entire life, reading biography after biography,” the aide said. “Late one December evening, during a lull in legislative activity, we started researching a resolution to authorize the placement of the bust in the Capitol, and realized we were on the cusp of the 70th anniversary of Churchill’s address to Congress right after Pearl Harbor. We wrote the resolution and we rushed it to the floor to commemorate the occasion.”

Three Democrats attended the ceremony.

John Kerry:

…told a Churchill story that many regard as apocryphal. “When he was invited to the White House to stay for a week, he stayed for months,” Kerry said. “He felt free to use President Roosevelt’s private bathtub, but no need to wear his bathrobe or any bathrobe when he was done.” The suggestion here is that Churchill exposed himself to FDR. Churchill denied the story.

Stay classy, Mr. Kerry.

Also in attendance were Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

They talked about…themselves! (Apparently, Obama’s narcissism is contagious. Who knew?)

Here’s what Reid said:

“Before I tell you about this hero, this hero to the world,” Reid said, “I should tell you he’s also one of my personal heroes. I’ve read every word of Churchill’s four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, one of my prized possessions, given to me by one of my dear friends many years ago.”

Not only that, Reid said, “His 125 hours of his speeches and his readings .  .  . I’ve listened to all 125 hours. I’ve read all the volumes of William Manchester’s biography of Churchill, as well as a number of other single-volume histories of the British war hero and political leader. I even had dinner with one of his grandsons in Las Vegas a number of years ago.”

And Nancy?

Pelosi said it was “quite emotional” to hear an audio of a portion of Churchill’s December 1941 address that was played at the dedication. “I have a picture in my office I’ve had for 26 years both in my leadership office—wherever that may be—and in my personal office of Sir Winston making that speech. He’s addressing the joint meeting of Congress, and my father is in that picture as a member of Congress at the time.”

John Boehner and Mitch McConnell also spoke.

 Yes, we have been very disappointed by their performances in Congress.

But I do think they both spoke well.

Like grown-ups.

Recalling Churchill’s speech to Congress in 1941 three weeks after Pearl Harbor, House speaker John Boehner said: “With peace, justice, and a touch of majesty, Winston Churchill returns to the United States Capitol. Just as a statue of Lincoln stands outside Parliament, this bust renews the ties between our peoples.”

And McConnell:

“One of his greatest preoccupations throughout his very long life was .  .  . us,” he said. He quoted Churchill’s words “just before leaving 10 Downing Street for the very last time. .  .  . He turned to various noncabinet officials that he had summoned to see him off and told them simply, ‘Never be separated from the Americans.’ ”

Well said.