The question is: who is the best one to cast for Crusty? So many choices.

Henry Waxman?
Chris Dodd?

Who will be their sidecick, spraying the seltzer bottle? And before the clowns are brought in, who should be cast as the master of ceremonies?

Let’s not assume it is the President.

This show has run for a long time. William McChesney Martin did the seltzer routine with Richard Nixon as Crusty at the Bretton Woods Hotel.

I did not miss your other point about the other clowns in the troupe seeking rents, but maybe they are in the side show, or in the tent with the strippers, where the legislators go.