Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, for one, is quite glad that the $360 million over budget Capitol Visitors Center is finally open. The stink of the common peasant was beginning to get to him:
"'My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway,' said Reid in his remarks. 'In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true.'"
It's also rude, elitist and possibly politically suicidal, but who's keeping track? By the way, Mr. Reid, those "tourists" that are so offending your delicate senses? They're American citizens, your bosses, who are coming to visit their building, where you just happen to serve at their pleasure. Insult them at your career's peril.
Oh, wait a sec. Reid has some sops to throw to the unwashed masses:
"'And that's not all. 'We have many bathrooms here, as you can see,' Reid continued. 'Souvenirs are available.'"
Well, all is forgiven, then. Plastic models of the Capitol are neat. Did he say something about smell...oh, never mind, I have to go take a whiz. Hold my place in the cattle line, willya?
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