The Wreck Of The McConnell Fitzgerald

According to multiple reports on Twitter, this morning House Speaker Paul Ryan reacted to the Obamacare repeal failure with a reading of the lyrics to Canadian pop singer Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976’s hit single, The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.

As our older readers surely recall, the song is about the still unexplained 1975 sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior, resulting in the deaths of the entire crew of 29. Lightfoot’s single peaked at #2 on Billboard’s pop chart, behind Rod Stewart’s Tonight’s The Night.