For the old enough, today is Saturday afternoon at the movies, a double feature about the White House and Senate, with selected short subjects for the House.

Zelig, the human chameleon, sneaks toward the Oval Office, with a Frankenstein clone in his wake, but the real action comes from McConnell, Boehner and his Igor, Eric Cantor, bumbling toward control of Congress.

With an inert President, Larry, Curly and Moe could be running the country. It will only hurt when we laugh.

The old-movie metaphor stretches just so far, but has the American electorate been reduced to the pre-adolescent stupor of those days when we blissfully assumed adults ran the country while we went to school and were entertained on weekends?

With only hours left in which to grow up, the answer seems to be a resounding maybe.

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