Thanks to a huge snowstorm, today Washington is experiencing the same kind of standstill that Congress experiences all the time. People can’t get to work! Of course, in Washington, that doesn’t change things all that much. Guess what, Jim DeMint—you don’t have to shut down government. The weather is going to do that on its own.
The worst part is the snarled traffic. The evening commute became the all-night commute for a lot of people. There were more abandoned cars on Washington area roads than there are abandoned homes in Florida housing developments. The highways were just parking lots for hours and hours. It was like Woodstock without any music. The least they could have done was to helicopter in Joe Cocker or Country Joe & the Fish.
Today all the schools in the DC area are closed. Well, that gives you a nice feel for what it’s going to be like under Congressman Paul Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future.” And some 422,000 people are still without power in Washington. Hey, here’s a quick political/weather joke:
Q. What do people in Washington do when they don’t have any power?
A. Filibuster! That’s right, you always have some kind of power in Washington. Even if your electricity is out, you can still put a secret hold on a Presidential appointee.
They’re going to get rid of the color-coded Homeland Security threat-level system. Well there goes my morning ritual of making coffee, checking the weather, and then checking the threat level. “Hmmm… today there’s a chance of rain, and an elevated chance of terror attack. I guess I’ll bring my umbrella and my haz-mat suit.” In its nine years of existence, the threat level was never, ever below yellow, for “elevated” threat level. Hello! If that’s your base-line level, it makes no sense to call it “elevated.” Calling the lowest level that they actually use “elevated” is like calling the smallest size available “large.” Who designed this system—the people at Starbucks? The color-coded threat alert system has outlived its usefulness. But then its usefulness was to the Bush administration as a political tool. Under the Bush Administration, the threat alert system was a lot better at predicting an upcoming election than it was at predicting an upcoming terror attack.
And former MSNBC morning host/current radio relic, Don Imus savaged Rachel Maddow yesterday (video below) for not defending Keith Olbermann on last Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Imus was appearently unmoved by Rachel heaping praise upon her former colleague on Monday.
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