Wednesday, August 04, 2010

The World's Greatest Deliberative Body

Read it and weep.

4 comments:

JDM said...

France got rid of its electoral college for their presidency in 1962, so it can be done. They kept it for their senate. Let's go one up on those effete Frenchies and just zotz the Electoral College AND the Senate.

Anonymous said...

I've only ever heard the term "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" applied to the Senate in terms of derision or irony. Is it based on a real phrase or is it always used as a put-down?

Also - the first Google search for the phrase turns up this gem from 1993:

""Now is the time to kill the 'Taxasaurus' monster! Kill the dinosaur, kill him now! If you don't, he's going to eat more jobs. So take this lead pencil and give him lead poisoning. Kill him!"

SENATOR ALFONSE D'AMATO (R., N.Y.), STABBING "TAXASAURUS" DRAWING WITH OVERSIZE PENCIL DURING BUDGET DEBATE"

So as far as the New Yorker article goes, I think it's pretty much SNAFU.

--NonyNony

pansypoo said...

do republikkklans ever pay? i am so sick of the IEDs on the road to the future.

Montag said...

The world is full of assholes. Not surprising that a lot of them are in the Senate.