nytimes.com — Capitol Hill has never lacked for humor, inadvertent or otherwise. Over the centuries its denizens have provided the raw material of comedy ? their ranks filled with magnificent egos, fakers and philanderers, not to mention the occasional statesman...
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ap0616Apr 19, 2009Submitter
Capitol Hill has never lacked for humor, inadvertent or otherwise. -- But, the inadvertent stuff is usually funnier.
novenatorApr 19, 2009
This was a good read. This part made me laugh out loud, "Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, silenced a Republican House colleague who had complained that he did not know what was inside a proposed bill: ?This bill is five and a half pages ? even the gentleman from Texas could have read it by now.?I think Franken will take his job seriously, although I fully anticipate a few sarcastic logic bombs to be hurled towards stupidity.