TNS Congressman Jim Banks addresses the audience before Vice President Mike Pence speaks to supporters during a Make America Great Again rally at Fort Wayne Aero Center in Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 22.
TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. As famous a phrase as it is, it’s unlikely that some fastidious but oblivious boatswain actually spent any time rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as it was sinking to a watery grave in 1912. But the idea has come to illustrate an utterly pointless, wasteful and insignificant endeavor that, in the grandest scheme of things, matters not at all. Sort of like sending a strongly worded letter over something stupid while Americans are dying in record numbers.