And You Can Tell They Are Drunk Because …
It is extremely difficult to tell if a Republican member of Congress is drunk by the way they behave. You have to smell it on them to know.
Apparently last night the whole place smelled like a Lone Star Beer factory.
As the evening wore on, reporters on the House floor were tweeting about the smell of booze in the room and obnoxious behavior more and more. Now, we all would expect that sort of thing from Boehner. I mean, come on, it was Saturday night, he’s John Boehner, of course he would be drunk….and orange. But I must admit that even I am a bit shocked that the others were hitting the bottle.
In their defense, there’s no way you can vote like a Republican while sober. That’s a scientific fact. Look it up.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Loved the tweet about Cruz and the chessboard, although it did bring back a visual of him in the paisley robe. Ack!
1Is there a reasonable expectation that irresponsible T PARTY behavior would/should be penalized? Not as long as only a handful of Republicans face opposition. Gerrymandering has made a farce out of Democratic government. Anything new here – naaa.
2Droll … !
3With a jeweled crown.
Doesn’t US law state that if you can prove you were incapacitated at the time you signed a contract,you are not legally liable? Wonder how far nutter constituents will go to excuse nutjob behavior?
4Read more of that link– the GOP also doesn’t want government involved in your health care EXCEPT to deny you access to birth control. They shoveled that into the continuing resolution.
5Republicans DO see a role in healthcare by the government. More corporate profits in the expectations of kickbacks and jobs as lobbyists for themselves, their families and staffers after they “retire.”
6Folks, I live only minutes away by car from our nation’s Capitol. Ever since I got here 47 or so years ago, it was immediately obvious that alcoholism was as common on the Hill as halitosis. Its a fact there aren’t enough AA meetings to cover the need!
7Does that fool Congressman from Texas not realize, when comparing their efforts to the 9/11 efforts over Pennsylvania where the passengers took back their flight from the hijackers, that the plane went down, killing all aboard? No.. obviously he isn’t that smart, or he was too drunk to remember that small fact. My GOD! Won’t somebody run against that idiot?
8I’m thinkin we need a graphic of that Slim Pickens Moment in Dr Strangelove riding that bomb, with Boner(sic) substituted for Pickens…. I bet your Photoshop God can Get er done!
9Cause that is what has been running through my head all weekend. Isn’t it time for the children to go home from Washington and the real Statesmen to come back and end this silly venture into Mock Politics?
Give me some time to myself and I get to see “Lincoln”, the big Spielberg film that got Daniel Day Lewis another Oscar. I read about bad behavior in the House in 19th Century but I never found it so crappy and funny at the same time as portrayed in that movie! The way the anti-13th Amendment crowd were portrayed (racist to the bone) as also dead set against giving African Americans the vote sure does look like the anti-immigration reform crowd currently on the Hill. They are stinky pants scared of millions of undocumented people becoming citizens and voting! Damn! What would the Rethugs who love war so much they want to get into Syria do if world wide peace broke out?
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