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With just hours to go until a government shutdown, Congressmen couldn't seem to agree on much except the fact that drinks were in order.
Reporters tweeted Monday night that they could smell booze on the lawmakers working to strike a last-minute spending deal on Capitol Hill:
jbendery
About every other House lawmaker I just talked to smelled like booze. It's only 9pm. Wheeee!
9:05 PM - 30 Sep 2013
sam stein
confirmed. also, it's a bipartisan affair RT @jbendery: About every other House lawmaker I just talked to smelled like booze. It's only 9pm.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/congressmen-drinking_n_4020023.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
postulater
(5,075 posts)Isn't that grounds for termination?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,398 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)If they're more than 0.08, arrest them for for DUI: "democracy under the influence."
City Lights
(25,171 posts)It's just a big fucking game to them.
I in their drinks.
Someone could get them on video boozing it up and laughing about shutting down the Government. That would be the nail the closed their coffin!
meow2u3
(24,775 posts)Require that all members of the Senate and House of Representatives be sober when debating or voting.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)meow2u3
(24,775 posts)Minor correction.