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| Reid: We won't smell the tourists anymore |
| 2008-12-02 |
| The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: tourists won't offend them with their B.O. anymore. "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." "We finally got the Peasants away from us Elites. Imean, who do they think they are? We've got Taxpayers to squeeze here and it's damned har to do with all the noise and smell." But it's no longer going to be true, noted Reid, thanks to the air conditioned, indoor space. And that's not all. "We have many bathrooms here, as you can see," Reid continued. Larry Craig should be happy. "Souvenirs are available." $621 million well spent. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #8 Well, Harry, the tourists can smell the stink as soon as they get off the plane at Dulles. And it ain't them... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-12-02 22:19 |
| #7 Tourist? I thought it was the people who paid for the damn place wanting to see what their sweat was all for. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-12-02 20:12 |
| #6 Harry, that smell is not coming from the "tourists". |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-12-02 19:48 |
| #5 Now he'll never smell the tar and feathers. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2008-12-02 16:23 |
| #4 Harry, maybe the BO isn't from the tourists. It could be a change you can believe in. Get used to it. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-12-02 15:47 |
| #3 That's the smell of freedom, Ponce Harry. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-12-02 15:35 |
| #2 Those are not tourists - they are your inspectors and regulators. And compared to the last two years of operations especially I would imagine that a couple hundred visitors in from the heat should smell like a breath of fresh air compared to the stench of the public servants which inhabit the Capitol. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-12-02 15:24 |
| #1 As if we needed any more proof that the Senate Majority Leader holds his country's citizens in complete contempt... |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-12-02 15:14 |