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Wonkette operative The Intern has some shocking news about what’s been going on in the House of Representatives ever since Nancy Pelosi turned off the lights and made everybody go on vacation. It is basically the Thunderdome all over again, only with Republican ninjas.
Our brave source writes:
Republican House leadership is mad at the Dems because the House is ajourned for five week recess. GOP leadership are encouraging members to go to the empty floor and speak about energy legislation. The microphones are shut off and the lights are out because the House leaders refuse to turn them on. It’s basically just a bunch of members yelling at the top of their lungs to the people in the gallery. The members have been encouraged by GOP leadership to bring megaphones.
The Intern and all other available operatives must dispatch themselves POST HASTE to gather video/audio footage of this very moving historical event. Or maybe it’s on CSPAN?
Let us know if someone cracks someone else’s skull with a heavy cane. We will then have proof that Congress has not advanced since the 1850s.
The venerable House of Six Interns should use this opportunity to redeem themselves.
can we lock the doors?
Remember, a long, mournful fart in the dark, no matter how earnest, is still a fart.
I like to think Thunderdome.
This is just prepping the Repubs for life after Nov 08 (assuming Reid and Pelosi know what the fuck to do with a large majority.)
Congress cage match!
Dudes, go home. I wish I had a 5-week recess.
Send more canes!
nrg es impotent 2 r sosiety aan therefore we should DRILL THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYTHING.
I mean, why stop with the Arctic, when there’s promises of oil on the moon and MARS. You fucking liberals with your “alternative” nrg. Everyone knows that “alternative” was a genre that died in 1998.
…is this on C-SPAN?! Please tell me its on C-SPAN!!!
trophy(forparticipation)wife: you and 2goats thinking along the same lines. Throw in LittlePig’s call for more canes, and we have a reality show.
JamesMichaelCurley: Yes, thats true, but if a tree falls in the woods, and it hits a republican, will anyone care?
Don’t they have shit else to do on a Friday afternoon in July?
Oops. I forgot. These are the Republicans. They figure they can cop easy feels in the dark there, and no one will see, and no one will tell…
shortsshortsshorts: nrg es impotent 2 r sosiety aan
…what?!!?
They could alternate energy chat with whining about how they were left out of the intelligence community reorganization. Attention, congress-critters: the way you get a role in what the presnident does is by cutting off the money if he won’t play nice. Sorry to have to read aloud from “Civics for Dummies,” but someone’s got to do it. Otherwise we’d still be fighting in Vietnam.
AngryBlakGuy: I bet it’s on Pay-Per-View.
Welcome to installment XXVII of Why They Hate Us. I’m obviously going to have to spend the rest of the summer on acid if this is how it’s going to be.
“Put out the light, and then put out the light”–Othello.
When you blog that “the Republican House leadership is mad”—you could just stop there.
SayItWithWookies: I know a guy you can talk to.
2goats: I say we volunteer them for an “Energy Crisis Hunger Strike”, lock them in there without food or water until OPEC lowers it’s prices. Either outcome is a win.
House Republicans: It’s been done before and with better effect. http://www.bzangygroink.co.uk/images/2005/gumby.jpg
…its times like these that make me wish you could scream “FIRE!” in a crowded theater(or congress).
The Democrats came-up with an energy conservation plan which doesn’t cost taxpayers a dime. Shut off the lights and microphones and sit in the dark. Atta girl, Nancy.
Thought everyone left the Hill friday’s? What gives, sexy interns running around the floor keeps the members in DC?
TWO MAN ENTER ONE MAN LEAVE?
Sigh, I’ve said it before; What the fuck is wrong with Republicans?
please say someone facing a tough reelection brought a Ouija board and candles to query Fate after everyone else leaves.
ManchuCandidate: A LOT to assume, to be sure
AngryBlakGuy: With night-vision cameras, I hope!
NebraskashireGentry: They should get a mirror and do Bloody Mary.
So now the House Republicans are mimicking the McCain campaign. What’s next? Comparing Pelosi to Lindsey Lohan?
N8Ma:
It is republicans:
TWO MEN ENTER ONE MAN.
~fixed, now with awesome GOP DP ACKSHUN~
Next thing you know, the DNC will be comparing McCain to Ethel Merman and Ella Fitzgerald.
BadNewsJack: Don’t forget the glow sticks! All sorts of fun to be had with those in the dark
MountainMama: AWESOME!!!!!
Advocatus_Diaboli: to which the DNC will respond by comparing Lindsey Graham and Lindsay Lohan. same first name = twinz!
(but seriously, the argument could be made)
I’m so going down to the Capitol with my Mr. Microphone right now!
It figures, Republicans bring megaphones to illuminate the darkness.
This is another one of those minor mysteries of life that we may never understand. Sort of like the idiot that retires and complains that he has nothing to do. I wonder if this was a problem for them when they controled the congress? Oh, and don’t they LIKE IT when the government does nothing? I say they should be happy, go home, go fishing…well, just go.
They need as much House floor time as they get right now because they’ll probably be wayyy short of it in future.
Does this mean Hopey is going to smash the 2008 Dem planks, having been bequeathed them by a burning bush/smoke-filled room up at Pike’s Peak, upon seeing the debauchery and false idol worship (remember, it’s not over until the lady in the striking golden-calf colored pantsuit sayeth it is, yea verily) back in Denver?
He’ll never cross the River Jordan into the Promised Land? WTF?
This advert has the stink of Gomer Fuckabee divinity school dog-whistle politics all over it…
schvitzatura: The trouble a tabbed browser gets one into…EPIK PHAIL!
I’m not sure if we want to send in (presumably) male interns into a darkened room packed with Republican men where recording facilities have been switched off.
Geezus, you must hate interns.
its morons like these who think we always have to be at work to be productive and why most americans are stuck with 2 weeks of holidays per year. reminds me of those idiots in the midwest who liked bragging about how they get up at 5am to come to the office
7 minutes in heaven.
Godot: Ooh, will Barack HILTON Obama be there?