On Friday, I heard a talking head on TV say that the fight over choosing a House Speaker means we have “a non-functioning democracy.” Au contraire, as the French say. Our democracy is functioning just fine. It just functions better here in New Jersey. We had a couple similar fights in our Legislature but the politicians worked things out – and in a much more amusing fashion. In January of 1972 we had afight similar to the kerfuffle hat kept Congress occupied last week. But our Republicans handled it better. At issue was who would serve as Assembly Speaker The election the prior year gave Democ…