Some of you get mad at me because a lot of my columns conclude with serious doubts about whether this nation can survive. Often I'm quoting long-term debt figures and things of that nature. But the real reason I have these doubts is not so much the fiscal realities, which could be turned around by serious people making the right decisions. It's the fact that so much what goes on in Washington is as far from serious as a thing can be, and an excellent example is this brouhaha that's erupted over the last few days over Kevin McCarthy's statement concerning Hillary and the Benghazi committee. The point here is not really to stick up for McCarthy as a candidate for Speaker as opposed to Daniel Webster, Jason Chaffetz or anyone else. At the moment I'm largely agnostic on that question. Rather, I want to take a look at how easily Washington hyperventilates over something that in substance is no big deal at all, but because of the way it's expressed, becomes the celebrated "gaffe" of the week and threatens to throw everything into complete chaos. Here's what McCarthy said:

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