"Root cause(s) and the fact is" are the most threadbare words used by the leadership of our times

The use of these words by national leaders has become tiresome at best and disingenuous at worst.

 It seems that over the past few years, whenever an issue is brought before unprepared tawdry politicians or their senior bureaucrat friends, they instinctively invoke linguistic twaddle.

The most common and poll tested response is “that’s a good question!”

In horse puck speak that means they have no palatable response to give and need to obfuscate. That …