Thomas Jefferson once described HIS VERY GOOD FRIEND John Adams to a newspaper as ‘a blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who is a hideous hermaphroditic character with neither the force and fitness of a man, nor the gentleness & sensibility of a woman’. Irrespective of his uncanny ability to envision John Fetterman some 200+ years ago, it should be noted that today’s squabbles are tame in comparison to those during this nation’s early years.