Incumbent Congressperson, and chicken, Stephen Lynch has joined incumbent (anyone notice a similarity) Secretary of State, and chicken, William Galvin in BMG's Royal Coop (stage right). Lynch apparently doesn't have what it takes to fulfill one of the most basic requirements for public office: the ability to defend one's positions in open debate. Even George W. Bush and Healey pal Dick Cheney could manage that. Galvin suffers from the same weakness. The condition is closely related to Incumbentus Entitlitis sydrome, a pernicious cancer in Massachusetts government: the belief, often shared with royalty, aristocrats, and other discarded political relics, that one is entitled to an office and does not have to answer to anyone, least of all the voters, for one's actions.
