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Our Goverment At Work: Senate Convened For 22 Seconds After D.C. Earthquake

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Yesterday’s insane earthquake was an atypical event for East Coasters, and in response, a constitutionally-required session of the Senate was called. For about 22 seconds.

Yes, that’s right. According to the New York Post, Sen. Chris Coons ran a special session in a conference room near Union Station. Nothing was discussed during the meeting, it was merely a formality, and ended after 22 seconds.

While such a concept might seem silly, the session was technically required by the Constitution because Congress hasn’t formally recessed yet, and so cannot go three full days without convening. There has been no official word yet, but the rumor is this was the most productive session of Congress in three years.

h/t New York Post

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  • Anonymous

    The quake was strong enough to wake-up nearly HALF of the thousands of federal government bureauweenies sleeping through a normal day at “work”. Also, there are reports that the internet porn being watched by the other bureauweenies was temporarily disrupted – causing great anguish amongst these “public servants” and provoking strong protests to their union reps about these “intolerable” conditions.

  • Anonymous

    Was Maxine Waters there?

  • Anonymous

    Yesterday’s insane earthquake…

    Ay yi yi. That was a seismic hiccup. This is an insane earthquake.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDp5tHmC2bk

  • NyQuill

    Shut the hell up you brainless jibbering dingus. I work my ass off FOR YOU. I make LESS MONEY for YOU. And I absolutely guarantee that if you attempted, just for fun and giggles, to apply for a government job there is no way you would be accepted.

  • NyQuill

    Do you have any idea what I do all day? From 8:30 AM to 6 or 7 on most nights? First, I help sort through the pile of requests for buckets and buckets of federal loot, most of them from tough, rugged, all-American “keep the gol-durned gubmint out of mah life” red states, all of whom receive more in federal money than they pay out in taxes, yet STILL clamor the loudest for money. Then after my half hour lunch, I have to make sure that all the money that we inevitably give to these self reliant red staters isnt spent on new high school football stadiums, creationist biology textbooks or bronze statues of Adoph Rupp. I do this for significantly less than I would make if I took my talents to one of the many defense contracting firms (who occupy whole SKYSCRAPERS across the highway from the Pentagon, by the way.)

    All day, every day, it’s the same thing. “Give me money! Give me money! How dare you ask how we spend it! Infringement upon my liberties! Give me money! Give me money!” Next time you wanna bag on “welfare queens,” Cleetus, maybe you should hold a mirror up to the entire South. Christ, if anything, the federal government out to be out protesting YOU.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    The same chamber hasn’t passed a federal budget in over 800 days.

    Damned GOP. Oh, wait.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, so you’re wasting our money? I’m OK with it if you stop and go work across the street. 

  • NyQuill

     Maybe I should. Because the defense dollars is where the REAL shameless red state pandering is. If you dinguses want to go ahead and clown the federal government, start with your own representatives and senators. Start with your own governors. Demand that they mean what they say about government money instead of just talking about it. If you crying little tie wearing welfare queens would stop demanding loot all the time, then maybe my job wouldnt be necessary. WE ARE YOU, dingus. That;s it and that’s all.

  • Anonymous

    They are a brave, heroic lot.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Are you posting on company time?

    Get back to work, slug.

  • CarmanK

    A strong federal govt is absolutely necessary for this UNION to survive. UH! A union that is good for the US,  guess that is why the tbaggers are such states’ rights freaks, they are against unions of any kind. Any way, the whole ideas of the 22 second session is to prevent Obama from making appontments and continue the obstructionism that the tbaggers/gop are famous for. They give DO NOTHING Congress a new meaning. The fed govt became the enemy when REAGAN and friends needed an ENEMY to deregulate and set the thieves free under the guise of “freeing the free market” from silly regulations and law enforcement. The BUSHIES politicized the DOJ with graduates from worthless Oral Roberts U and of course we know what happened with the orgies at Office of Mine SAFETY and Minerals etc… The repugs poisoned our federal govt agencies with incompetence, the most significant BROWNIE and Katrina, so it is no wonder people are skeptical. that is why I am so glad that Obama is in the WH, at least it has stopped the erosion of govt competency and will restore eventually some respect to the fed. Murdoch and friends had respect for the British Parliament. Our fed has been impotent with BUSH/CHENEY at the helm. I hope a few doses of VIAGRA will get it up again.

  • fanofgrendel

    Anything to keep Obama from appointing another Commie as Green Jobs Czar as a recess appointment.

  • Imomsixi

    Where was your obama after Ft. Hood?  He wasn’t  there for a long while.  George W. Bush went as a private citizen.  Where was your obama after the devastating tornados back east.  On vacation probably.  As far as I can tell he is physically on vacation most of the time, and always from a mental stand point.  Read  “The Bill of Rights”.  Maybe then even you will understand why the Tea Party is so forcefully standing up against the tyranny that is going on in Washington.  Obama is not a leader. Obama is a product of his own imagination and the ideas fostered at his first community organizing job at the “New York Community School of Harlem”.  You think he is a great American, a unifier for the races.  Read his so called autobiographies full of hate for his white mother and grandparents.  Full of how important he is and so full of b.s. about this great black father he had, that deserted him and his mother.  Yah I’ve read it.  Before the election, so my opinion of obama is he is a product of racial divide and affirmative action.  Read some of the reviews of what he did to the Harvard Law Review.  It took them several years to get it back to a place of prominence in the Law community.  Smart, accomplished, brilliant thinker?  These are words attached to him by some media air heads that don’t know how to report real honest news; but put their interpretation of news out as the real thing.
    Obama needs to go.  People who work and earn their money should not have to hear about spreading the wealth.  That is just unbelievable that anyone could even buy into such stupidity.

  • Glum

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ……PUNKED big time.

    No he was at home because they shut-down his office……. PUNKED again…!

  • Glum

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ……PUNKED big time.

    No he was at home because they shut-down his office……. PUNKED again…!

  • Anonymous

    Your bias is way too ridiculous for you to be doing the job you claim to do.The last thing we need are biased government employees making decisions in which their personal contempt and/or opinion for various states,people and institutions might influence where funds are placed.

    You,sir,have single handedly shown us all why we hate government employees and why this administration should be voted against in the hope that another will clean house more effectively than the current one has.

    You sit there and while like a child when millions upon millions have no job at all and would gladly take yours just to get a pay check and enough money to eat.Stop acting like a wuss and do you effin job like it is supposed to be done.Stay off blog sites where you make an ass out of yourself.

  • NyQuill

    My contempt is entirely reserved for people from congressional districts that are kept afloat through enormous federal outlays, even as the congressman claims Tea Party roots and decries the federal government. Sort of like a fifteen year old who screams “I HATE YOU” to his parents, then sneaks out of the bedroom window and goes to the mall with Dads credit card. Pack of jabbering HYPOCRITES! ALL of you!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Don’t you have tea party rally to go to so you can save your government medicare.  

  • Small Thoughts

    I noticed that the Federal government shut down immediately and sent everyone home for the rest of the day. Somehow the world didn’t end with the government shut down. Let’s have an earthquake drill in the morning about two days a week.

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