On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:34:14 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

These congress critters sometime act like army ants, unthinkingly
marching to a goal

Army ants don't have a goal. They leave the nest in a thirty degree
fan and go out about two hundred yards, eating every insect on the
ground. Catterpillers don't run fast. Army ants are subject to a lot
of popular myth. In reality they are cool enough, like all ants.

Casady