In a highly significant intervention over Britain's future, Howe laments the "new, almost farcical" level of debate over Europe in the Tory party, and says that Labour and the Liberal Democrats may need to bear the burden of retrieving the situation.
The farcical hypocrisies of the debate over "The Reagans" don't end there.
The debate turned farcical when the Oxford-educated Mr. Osborne, under questioning by Parliament, had difficulty remembering the last time he had eaten a pasty.
Green party MP Caroline Lucas, one of the MPs who wrote the environment audit committee's report that backed a moratorium, said the Commons debate was farcical after discussion of dozens of amendments was confined to two hours.
"Delivering the goods," of course, has little to do with delivering good science and is yet another act of deploying the Tobacco Playbook: make a one-sided scientific debate a farcical two-sided one.
The attempt then to portray Al Gore, who rejected the subterfuge, as the one who was funking national debates was farcical.
During the debate there was a farcical moment when Stephen Timms, the Labour government's Finance Minister said, with a throw away line, that people could simply password protect their WiFi.
Today, if you read, say, foreign policy journals or, in a farcical form, listen to the Republican debates, they're asking, "How do we prevent further losses?" On the other hand, the capacity to preserve control has sharply declined.
What struck me as particularly farcical was Senator McCain's post-debate assertion on Hannity & Colmes that America is a "right of center" nation.
