The two simpletons yakking on the job look awfully familiar. Talking about how they are not supposed to be talking, they are Abbott and Costello doing "Who's on first?" Philosophizing as they rather pointlessly stand watch (they are guards), they are the tramps in "Waiting for Godot." Caught in political machinations way above their pay grade, they are the doomed bit players in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:45PM on February 9, 2016