Justin Bieber for president

One of the few lawmakers who seems to be having fun by acting like a child is Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey. He is scheduled to have a fund-raiser at Lady Gaga’s “Monster Ball” tour stop in Washington on Sept. 7. Lautenberg is 86 years old, but there is no resisting a woman who once wore a see-through plastic dress with a giant silver lobster as a headpiece. Everybody loves lobster.

Another is John McCain, who seems to be flirting with the über-tan “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi (after having bonded with each other over tanning salon taxes in June). Snooki was arrested for disorderly conduct last month. This week, McCain told a Phoenix radio station that “I kind of think she might be too good-looking to go to jail.” A wink, wink from the dashing 73-year-old with the wispy locks. One bit of advice to Snooki: Don’t go to McCain’s home base in Arizona. The state is hostile to people of your current complexion.

So, yes, I cast my lot with the actual children, and not because I think that they’re Obama-conformists, either. They’re not. In fact, they’re even more harsh on the president than adults.