Cringing, hands covering ears

The president of the United States speaks:

This should shame the critics who keep complaining about how he doesn't study his briefing materials.

As an update, or coda, to my recent screed about the undemocratic US Senate, Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and contributing editor at The Atlantic, notes that in another 20 or 25 years 70 percent of Americans will live in the fifteen most populous states.  Assuming no structural reform occurs, 30 percent of the population will then elect 70 of the 100 US senators.