Song of the Day 4/22: The Rainmakers, “Drinkin’ on the Job”

If Kash Patel didn’t want reporters to look into his drinking, maybe he shouldn’t have guzzled beer with the U.S. hockey team at the Olympics. It would have been a bad look anywhere outside Frat Row, but it made me long for the days when the FBI director had enough sense to not get photographed wearing his dress.

Patel is only making it worse by filing an absurd libel lawsuit. If he goes through with it, all his dirty laundry will get another airing in discovery.

The Rainmakers were a Kansas City bar band that released three albums in the late ’80s and a few sporadically since. Their 1986 debut LP got some critical praise and reached No. 87 on the Billboard 200 album chart, but other than some success in Europe that was their high-water mark. That album included “Drinkin’ on the Job,” which is mainly an exercise in wordplay – the farmer got plowed, the garbageman got trashed and so forth – but it does include one prescient quatrain:

F.B.I.
C.I.A.
D.W.I.
U.S.A.

Seems like they knew America would one day have a Kash problem.