On another show Saul’s proxy faced the proxy of Texas Senator Erstwhile P. Hagerbarger, the Republican Senate Leader, chief opponent of the ban, and Saul’s longtime nemesis. “I know you possess a good and just heart,” Senator Hagerbarger’s proxy told Saul’s proxy. The senator was a craggy-faced fossil, older than Saul by at least a quarter century, who was noted for his gritty integrity and whose attacks were typically indirect and maddeningly folksy. “So you must’ve wrassled the angel over this issue.”
“Thank you, Senator. Yes, I have ‘wrassled’ the angel,” replied Saul’s proxy. “And like Jacob in the Bible, I pinned it for a three-count.”
Not bad, thought Saul, who didn’t know he knew that particular scriptural allusion.
“I’m sure you have,” continued the senator’s proxy. The proxy ha
