[Jim from C-Town]

This is the way I have always envisioned a properly functioning Congressional and Senate Dorm system working. Four to a room, bath down the hall, communal eating and six weeks a year in July and August to write a budget and GTHO and go home.

We make being a Government Apparatchik far too comfortable.

[Boogieman]

We need dorm mothers too... I’m thinking random voters selected from their congressional districts and paid a stipend to go supervise these goons and make sure they’re not boozin’ and whorin’ it up :)

[cyclotic]

I like it.

I was flipping through the radio yesterday and came across C-Span radio. The House was debating an all-important bill to allocate funds to present the families of fallen Police officers with a flag flown over the Capitol.

While I like the sentiment and it’s a great gesture toward heroic Americans, I was listening and hoping one of these bastions would say, “Congress, my friends on both sides of the aisles, last year there were 128 line of duty deaths. A flag costs $50. Let’s honor these officers by reaching deep in our own pockets and if we each donate $50 from our annual income of $174,000, we will have enough to send a flag to fallen officers for the next several years, at which point, we will repeat the process.” Of course, I must have been dreaming.