Lovely Daughter took the following pic while on the road the other day (I need to talk w/her about her driving behavior, eh? ;-)). My only mods to it were some cropping and some quick-and-dirty (and very sloppy) cloning to cover some names and phone numbers.
*heh* In comments, Nicole suggests the jackasses are running away from D.C. You know, she’s probably right on… more than one level.
Heh. Could be running out of DC in advance of the rail…
Well, congresscritters (at least the House) have indicated that adjournment will be about 3 weeks early… You may have the right idea: they want to “miss” the “meeting” with Dr. Tarr and Mr. Fether, you think? 🙂
BTW, if they’re not jackasses when they go to DC, they are when they return. I knew a guy (before he became a governor, then US Senator) who was a pretty decent dude. Swept to DC. on a “new broom” candidacy. A few years later, shed himself of the woman who’d helped get him there (“broomed” her right on outa there, it seems), became a typical go-along-to-get-along jackass, as far as I could tell. Went through a long recovery process to becoming a real person after he decided to “retire” from politics (Damascus Road experience? I dunno, but something changed for him).
I think we need to start recovery centers for people who’ve been in DC longer than 6 or 8 years–in office or otherwise. “Internment camps” we could call them. *heh* Barbed wire, lots of big rocks to make into little ones, etc.