Senator Lindsey Graham Says That Without the Towel Boys During the Shutdown, The Senate Gym Smells “Rank.” That’s Not All That Stinks, Senator
Oh the humanity!
During the shutdown, the House and the Senate Gyms, which are considered essential, don’t have towel service and are expected to – oh dear God – reuse towels.
Do you want to know why the gyms are considered essential when cutting checks to the families of dead service members is not?
“This job is very stressful and if you don’t have a place to vent, you are going to go crazy and that’s why I’ve used it all these years,” said Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who has used the facility since 1973.
Don Young, listen to me! It didn’t work. You’re crazy as a bullfrog in a tack factory.
These guys make 170,000 a year and they are not working right now because we don’t have a damn government. You would think they could bring towels from home.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
No clean towels? How elitist! And believe me, if I was in a gym, the LAST person I’d want to see who needed a towel (shudder) would be Miss Lindsey!
1Amen, JAKvirginia … No Ms. Lindsey …
But, if they had to bring their own towels, then the little missus would have to do the laundry for them … oh, how domestic of them!
The entire lot of them smell like fish that have gone past their due dates … time to toss them in the friggen trash and load up on a lot of Febreeze to quell the stench!!
2Perhaps Miss Lindsey could carry a magnolia blossom under her nose.
3There’s a product available to remove the smell of dog urine. Perhaps a spritz of Eau De
4Doggy might help remove the odor of Repug.
Boehner is keeping the House gym open because a number of GOP/tea party congresscritters do not have homes in DC and live in their congressional offices. These tea party idiots take showers each morning in the House gym and so Boehner can not close the gym without forcing these idiots to get real housing
5Why do these guys have a gym anyway? Do they pay for its use or is this just another government handout to the “takers”?
6Pride, they don’t have any. It’s too early in the day to be this disgusted – unfortunately, I am. Where is a USMC drill Sgt. when we need him?
7Did you see J. Stewart’s “Moment of Zen” last night? He had clip from House – Alan Grayson was addressing the group and he said in a recent poll Congress was compared to “dog poop” (at this point the GOP honcho running the deal began trying to interrupt). Congress got 40% approval, dog poop got 47% and then he sat down but the Chair got real ticked off that “his good friend from Florida” had been so “indelicate”.
8Oh, the humanity!
9A day that will live in infamy.
The only thing we have to fear…
They ought to take a leaf out of the First Family’s book. They refuse to consider themselves in need of “essential services” that make workers do the job even though they aren’t getting paid, so Michelle is on kitchen duty in the residence, and the President is in charge of laundry, ironing and filling and emptying the dishwasher.
10Oh fer peet’s sale, Lindsey Graham. Its way past time you all take your picnic basket, go home and grow up! There are people out here who only wish they had your kind of problems. They have no idea if they will have a job tomorrow let alone some damn towel!
11How nice. The House voted today to restore the military death benefits today, so now they can go back down to theirs gym and relax and snap towels some more.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/09/20885072-house-votes-unanimously-to-restore-military-death-benefit-snagged-by-shutdown?lite
Glad they have their priorities straight.
12@Maryelle … That product is Fabreeze that eliminates the smell of dog pee and human grossness!!
@Marlene … I did see Jon Stewart last night and heard Alan Grayson compare Congress to dog poop … LOL And the guy in the pulpit started pounding his gavel to shut Grayson down but not before Grayson said dog poop got a higher approval rating then Congress! Totally cracked me up!!
13“Essential?” Really?!? I did not know that, and now that I do, there’s another twist in my bloomers. Well, since the republicans aren’t doing anything else, maybe one of them can throw a load of towels in the washer. Too bad they’re not being paid by the hour.
14They debrief in the gym and the bar.
15Even worse: The congressional barber shop is closed. Think of the combovers….
16I have long thought the best way to get Congress-varmits to do their job is to move the nation’s capital to Junction City, Kansas. There’s a lot of surplus federal property there (No earthly reason the Senate can’t meet in a WWII era barracks), it’s about the geographical center of the United States and there’s nothing much to do… just don’t put in air conditioning and see how quickly they’d get things done.
17For once I am in some agreement with these poor Senators and Reps. You don’t know what you might catch from re-using towels in a place where congress-critters hang out.
It might be something that neither Obamacare nor antibiotics could handle.
18Have these folks no knowledge of the private economy and enterprises known as laundries? I suggest that the vapor suffering Lindsey Graham canvas his peers for a count of how many towels they require per week and then comparison shop. The Senators can surely pay for laundering of their dirty linen.
19If I had a pet as incompetent and delusional as nutters are,I would have said pet put to sleep and call it mercy. Nutters- not so much.
20Ah, he misses him some towel boys. That’s so sweet.
Or possibly pervy.
21If they need a gym to de-stress…they could first learn not to create so much stress, or spend their money on a gym membership somewhere else, and or–and I do like this–haul their own dirty towels down to a laundromat and stand there doing their laundry and listening to real working people doing their laundry.
Overprivileged brats.
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