The Telegraph reports that “Former US Congressman Walter Fauntroy” is trapped in a hotel in Tripoli. As Lincoln once asked: “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.” And calling a non-voting delegate a “congressman” doesn’t make him one. Has anyone challenged the constitutionality of this office of pseudo-congressman? All our leftover colonial specks have them, and the solution is to give D.C. back to Maryland and cut the islands loose. But what authority is there for the creation of this office in the first place? They’re not employees of the House, like a clerk or what have you; they can vote on legislation in committee and thus help make law binding on the nation. Call me a Constitution fetishist, but I don’t even see a penumbra or emanation that can possibly justify the existence of these positions.