ONION: Senate Carpool Forgets To Pick Up Feingold Again

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Silly Onion.

http://www.theonion.com/3949/news1.html

WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) was forced to find an alternate means of transportation to work Monday, because his Senate carpool once again "forgot" to pick him up.

"Did we forget Feingold again?" Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) asked. "Gee, I don't know how that happened. I guess we were running late and just flaked on it. Hmm, same thing happened last week."

"They think I'm oblivious to the fact that they don't like me," Feingold said. "Well, guess what? I don't like them, either. I think they're all stupid. If I weren't so committed to conserving energy, I'd tell them all to take a flying leap."

One Beltway insider noted that Feingold's current carpool is the senator's third in the past five years. "I was carpooling with Russ in '98," Ron Wyden (D-OR) said. "Everyone else wanted to have a nice relaxing ride in, but Feingold would start up on campaign finance reform the second his seatbelt clicked. That guy would not shut up for a second."