Every week, our Anonymous Lobbyist answers your questions about how laws get made and why they probably shouldn’t. If you have a question about the dirty business of doing business in Washington, ask her.
This week: sweaty encounters between boastful adults.
I’ve just graduated from college and am thinking about becoming a lobbyist. How would I do that?
I like to drink a lot of alcohol! Grrrrrr! Alcohollllll! That’s who I am! You should also get drunk a lot, and there’s a good chance you will wind up in some member of Congress’ office, debating the merits of animal reform. Specifically, you need to drink 77 beers to be a lobbyist. That’s all! And then renounce your humanity at the ceremony underneath the Lincoln Memorial. DONE.
Is there any group you wouldn’t lobby for?
The Prohibition people have been paying well since they let their lobbying slide and wound up having their constitutional amendment reversed, but I won’t do it! Alcohol is what I use to replace having a rewarding life I can be proud of, and that makes me interesting.
How much money do you charge an hour when you’re working for a client?
Haha, stupid. Lobbyists aren’t paid in money. They’re given treasure chests full of dead Caribbean babies packed with cocaine.
I’ve seen a lot of “boob” and “assfucking” references on this blog today. Does that have something to do with where babies come from? It seems like the “hip” people in D.C. all know where babies come from.
Ha! Nobody knows where babies come from, especially people in D.C.! Sure, some lobbyists like to flirt with young interns by saying they know where babies come from, but nothing really happens besides people going to each other’s bedrooms late at night to try to out-brag each other about how much they know about where babies come from.
Best lobby?
The Pharmaceutical-Arsonist Alliance of America.
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The horror, the horror.
"I like to drink a lot of alcohol!'
I, too, like to drink a lot of alcohol. Well, I am just a social drinker. Turns out, I'm VERY social.
I'm just a social drinker too. I only drink when someone else somewhere on the planet is also drinking.
I'm back from Jersey and drinking heavily. Now I have to unlearn the toll plaza restart form of driving.
The Statue of Liberty is COOL!
I ascribe to your philosophy. However, if I was the last person on Earth, I think I'd just have more to drink!
I don't need people getting in the way of my drinking.
I'm a socialist drinker and try to get other people to pay for my drinks. Sadly, that doesn't seem to work as well for me as it does for attractive young women.
Sometimes (every night), I'm 'pass out social'.
GO SHARKS! STOP SUCKING! (sigh)
Didn't we always used to say "Tits or GTFO" to this one?
There was a lot talk about "sweater puppies" in those days, as I recall, young feller. You were here then too, probably baying for a reveal like the rest of us.
Let's be fair. She was a lobbyist. There was a fair chance that, with the right incentive, we would have seen tits. Now, we have Sara, and we have learned the proper way to say "Yes, Mistress." Times change.
We did see her drunk in a bathtub.
I think that was between her getting fired as a lobbist and getting fired as a wonkette.
She had some very respectable sweater puppies as I recall.
Was she the last of the ass-fucking fantasists?
Ah, yes, Meagan in the bathtub, her big reveal when becoming an un-anonymous Wonkette contributor. I never forgave her for not looking exactly like Maria Bello in Thank You For Smoking.
I am ashamed to admit to having a very similar reaction.
Her writing inspired a great image, reality was very mundane.
Hey Lobbyist, make Jack post this video of the Illinois Senate honoring Wu-Tang. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lUMc7we5ks
We need a law to stop old, white Republicans from reading rap lyrics.
I'm constantly amazed at what passes for humor on Wonkette. To the present day.
No, you're not.
But you keep coming back. That's the definition of insanity. HERMANA!
A rabbi, a priest and a dog walk into a bar and the bartender says, "what is this…some kind of joke?"
Is that better?
A rabbi, a priest and a dog walk into a bar. You'd think one of them would have seen it.
I like it!
Did you hear about the dyslexic who walked into a bra?
No, but my brother is an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac. He lays awake at night pondering the existence of dog.
pinkocommi: Don't get me started on the commentators who think they're funny!
I love America and want to serve it honorably by becoming a well-respected senator! I want to make speeches that make people cry and think about their moral obligations! After that, I'm going to give all my money to charity! My question: I ran out of places to hide the bodies of young female hookers in my apartment. Any advice?
Industrial. Wood. Chipper.
Pig farm.
That's perfect. Just make sure that farmer is getting his extra special subsidies and let le bon temps roule.
It worked in Delta, BC for quite a while, until that pesky purse showed up. Note to self: burn the purses.
Y'sure that just wasn't an old episode of DaVinci's Inquest?
I love how the Canadian colleagues of American shows are so much more boring. Da Vinci's Inquest always reminds me of a watered down – or at least much quieter, less dramatic – Law and Order.
Ah, the pig farm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6635aUbYe4&fe…
Under a cabbage leaf?
Ever see Fried Green Tomatoes? First, get friendly with the chefs at the Capitol cafeteria…
Ooh, apparently downfisty really hates novels about lesbian cannibalism.
Could you hide them in the bodies of the old female hookers in your apartment?
Persian Gulf?
I heard there was an old dead perv there looking for 72 virgins. He'll probably be happy with dead hookers at this point.
Does anyone in Wu Tang own a Chinese restaurant? Talk to them.
Hide the bodies? Just sew them together into a Human Centipede-style project and rake in the profit.
You are so old school. Why hide a body when you can fake a suicide?
Not actual advice per se, just an observation: Bodies will eventually float to the surface if not weighted down.
You only put a body in the river if you want it to be found. Some guy told me that (in a movie).
I hear Long Island is nice this time of year.
Why, the Arabian Sea, of course.
So wait, I'm a lobbyist? I had no idea!
Today we are all lobbyists.
Where do Lobbyists' souls go when they start their lobbying careers?
What's a soul?
it's the thing between gospel and R&B.
Or that guy from Starsky & Hutch.
Its found at the bottom of a glass.
In the human-sized safes in their offices. And, in the rare instance they escape the safe, they have Ghost Busters ghost traps set up in front of them.
NEXT UP:
Late Night Shots fingerbangs Benazir Bhutto's corpse with Custerwolf's amputated digit. This sets in motion Wonkette Warblog. Strange bedfellow allies: RedState and Fuck You, Penguin.
STAY TUNED!
Wow, that's so retro! I'd forgetting how mad the Youngs were about LNS. Don't they know people go to prep schools to learn to be better than we?
Jesus, I completely forgot about Custerwolf. I need a drink now.
Wow, that is totally like an acid flashback.
Very familiar, been here before, but totally strange, maybe fun, maybe dangerous, mostly confusing. Very David Lynch.
I think I need a drink.
God, I miss Late Night Shots and Tuesday night hookups and broken condom posts that wound up being read by teh victim and all the rest. I am starting to dislike Retro Day.
This must be nostalgia day on Wonkette, right?
Happens whenever Rapture time wanders around. Then nostalgia day takes a holiday.
Is it true that lobbyists' hollow lives and vile existence make them unable to get to sleep without getting pass-out drunk?
Is all this retro rocketing your way of saying that Wonkette is going away? Because if it is, I'll need to stock up and get an early start on my drinking.
Please don't play into our fears.
I guess we're all gettin' the same vibe.
I miss Spy Magazine a ton, and if it happens, Wonkette, too.
T.
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I'm remembering when Clif became responsible for 90% of the posts on Sadly No.
Jack, at 75K per month, what can I lobby for you?
Need a pay raise?
Car allowance?
I have Ken's ears.
Van Gogh's ears or GTFO.
Hey, give them back!!
Lies. Only Karl Marx has Ken's ear.
And he's not getting 'em back until you get that $20,000 in unmarked whore diamonds.
Did no one tell Jack what happened to the last "a Lobbyist"? I don't think I can handle that drama again.
I was wondering about this. Isn't this deja vu – all over again?
You should also get drunk a lot, and there’s a good chance you will wind up in
some member of Congress’ office, debating the merits of animal reformPaul Ryan's office, hoping for Round 9 of a hot monkey sex threesome with him and the 44DD talents of his faithful aide Boopsie Thunderpussy.She's of the Hamptons Thunderpussys, is she not?
By way of Gay Head.
This crypt-like silence of my office was just pierced by my howling laughter at your comment. Well done!
Watch his eyes pop when Paul Ryan finally finds his loyal aide is A DUDE!
Hey, they don't call it the Thunder Down Under for nothing, son!
Where's that gay staffer beach club group, thats what I want to know. And LNS, since the GOP regained the majority in the house, the number of polo-shirted entitled rapey southern closet cases must have skyrocketed?
Whoa. Stuef is really huffin the glue today, eh?
This entire blog can be shipped to the Northern Mariannas Islands, no one has lost any
A million whore diamonds for you!
Hockey is still going on? How long do those playoffs last? And do 80 percent of the teams in the "league" all get to be in the "playoffs" like they used to?
Hockey used to be normal when only people of the Great White North (I include Detroit and Chicago) played it. Only when large numbers of Americans became involved did the season extend to midsummer and everyone had to win a trophy. They have to make money to buy all those skaters from the Czech Republic and Ukraine and Americans won't pay for tickets unless "it really counts."
Old NHL:
Montreal Canadiéns
Toronto Maple Leafs
New York Rangers
Chicago Black Hawks
Detroit Red Wings
Boston Bruins
Hockey bores the crap out of me but, like the other “major” sports, expansion hasn’t actually lowered the quality of play as fast as extravagant pay, steroids and year-round training have raised it.
Dude, I haul ice up to the loft, chill the beer, whip out the pizza and wings and watch topless. If hockey bores you I will never invite you over to watch.
If that's the case I'm there, watching attentively, although maybe not the hockee.
Have I ever told you that I LOVE hockey…and what beautiful eyes you have?
I love how the Red Wings are basically a bunch of Swedes, Finns, Canadians, with a smattering of Americas. USA! USA!
I love hearing Mike Babcock on TV talking "Detroit-this and Detroit-that" and the guy has the most ridiculous of stereotypical Canadian accents. Hell, even Canadians don't talk like Mike Babcock talks.
Behind the shelf containing multiple copies of Boobs: A Novel.
The original "Ask a Lobbyist" would have been so much better if the "a Lobbyist" would actually have been, you know, an actual lobbyist.
Where can I get a briefcase of cash like that?
Ask Bristol.
At the Bohemian Club.
Davos
Goldman Sachs
IMF
Big Oil CEO office
Investment rating agencies
Tim Geithner's
They're all over the place. I'm surprised you're asking, where do you hang out at?
Well, Jim's House of Briefcases Full O' Cash out on Decker Blvd. in Columbia, SC, would be a start.
OK, I usually ignore the downfister(s), but this really should be emphasized:
He, she, it, or they just downfisted the above, which was not only posted by a weenus, but TOLD WHERE YOU CAN GET A BRIEFCASE FULL OF CASH!!
"Ask a Lobbyist: Baby Origins"
Ask Bristol?
Hey! Debate of Intensiveness, Get your shit together! I'm fucking trying to get my snark on here.
"Specifically, you need to drink 77 beers to be a lobbyist…"
Hey, I was a lobbyist… just last night!
You get one of those punchcards for the beers, and when you fill it up, you get a plaque and a handjob from Tom DeLay. The plaque is nice, but the handjob is pretty disappointing.
Of course it is. He's famous for his bjs.
My my, isn't THAT a pretty boy, in the avitar, there.
He's also a quarterback, and has an equally hot Asian boyfriend. So were he single — and, y'know, not fictional — you'd totally have a shot at that.
And known for his tiny hands.
"Nobody knows where babies come from…"
Duh, the Caribbean packed with cocaine… hello.
Pig farm, as stated above, is a good solution. Pigs eat the evidence. You eat the pigs. Circle of Life.
That's pretty gross if you think about it. One step away from cannibalism.
Do lobbyists have a lobby? Because they seem to be pretty successful.
Moreover to lobbies have lobbyists? And what if there are so many lobby-representing lobbyists sitting in the lobby that there is a conflict of interest? Would you have to throw some out of the lobby? And is there no way for the banned lobby lobbyists to gain representation through lobbying? And in reality wouldn't all lobby lobbyists need their own lobbyists, with their own lobby? It would be the Lobby Lobbyist's Lobby Lobbying Lobby. LOBBY!!!!1!
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they do. Talk about feeling pressure at work!
I'm pretty sure this whole retro day bit is a sign that Jack is morally weak.
"Nobody knows where babies come from"
Liquor + desperation + failed contraception = babies
Bristol wants to know what contraception is. Sounds fun.
Penis goes in, penis comes out…you can't explain it. Well…maybe can't remember it.
Being too stupid, lazy, careless, drunk, or irresponsible to use contraception.
The same qualities that make you *unfit* to be a parent make you *likely to become* a parent.
Life's ironic, ain't it?
Dear AskALobbyist:
Where's the ALT text?
This is the perfect opportunity for guest columnist Jack Abramoff to weigh in…
O/T, but since it's retro day, this would be an appropriate time to celebrate that the P-Funk mothership has arrived in DC. Now I have to go get fuel for the smoke machine.
Today, and yesterday, we have all been country fuckers.
The crimes and moral corruption of the Bush Crime Family are simply staggering. Just think of the outrage of the media if one of them was accused of raping a hotel maid, and/or one of them was French.
We should come up with two or three good comments, and then copy/paste over and over. That would be fun.
Dear Lobbyotomist,
Who do I have to lobby to get a better deal on Chicken McNuggets?
Or do I still have to keep blowing the clown?
Thx
Confused
( __)=(__)
Child: Mommy, where do babies come from?
Mom: You see, Billy, when a mommy and daddy get totally fucked up on Jager bombs after a night of clubbing…
BTW, snark off for a second, the NRA is the best. lobby. evah</>. Also, the most depraved. Also.
I'm partial to "dirty pillows" myself.
Nobody knows where babies come from, especially people in D.C.
That's the truth. I was born in DC and put up for adoption. It's been a endless source of fun speculating who the Baby Daddy and Momma are for the last 53 years..
How is babby formed?
My mother said that babies come in bottles
But last week she said, they grew on special baby bushes
I don't believe in the stork either, they're all in the zoo
Busy with their own babies …
And what's a baby bush anyway?
Now we just have to get you into golf and football and all will be right with the world.
I'd probably prefer the Asian guy, truth to be told. And anyway, I am a "married" man. Plus, old.
Nice to dream, though.
I have the same chance whether the guy is gay or straight.
Now is this "real old" (i.e. over 50) or "gay old" (i.e. over 25)?
Hooray for hockey fans!
Oh c'mon, everybody loves football. But golf? Much rather be playing than watching.
Can. Not. Watch. Golf. I sit down and watch golf for 10 minutes and I feel my Haggar SansaBelts* expand four inches, my bald spot* starts feeling sunburned, and I'm wanting a midday nap.
(*I don't actually have either of these things.)
How are you gentlemen?
All your dancing around the bush is belong to us.
~
Gay old. 43.
Which means I qualify for pity glares at the local Weho watering hole.
Oh, stop wallowing in self-pity. You can pretend you're rich.
And don't try to tell me the young gay sluts don't like that as much a the young female hetero sluts.
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