Posted on 11/13/2019 3:41:03 PM PST by McGruff
An army of emotional support dogs was on hand Wednesday to help stressed-out Capitol Hill lawmakers and staffers weary after a year of impeachment-related drama.
Hundreds of journalists, policy wonks and politicians including Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) lined up to see the pooches as the first day of public impeachment hearings got underway.
One frazzled Senate staffer was seen clinging to a Japanese Spitz, while a handsome Collie named Remy was only too happy to take Bustos’ mind off collusion and quid pro quo. Blue the Goldendoodle also wore a tie for the special occasion.
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To bad they did not bite them in the **ssy.
I think you nailed it.
This fashion for therapy animals seems to have become — well, just what I said, a fashion or fad.
When I was a kid, the only therapy animals were seeing-eye dogs and everyone understood what they were there for.
Now, it seems like I’m reading about therapy animals in every news cycle. I think one of the airports in California even has a therapy pig.
I’m also reading that some people are trying to game the system by putting “service dog” tags on their pets, when they haven’t been trained up to service dog standards at all.
And it doesn’t exactly instill confidence in the system that Capitol Hill staffers need to pet cute critters to ease their stress.
Snowflakes! Millennial weaklings! Have they never heard of alcohol?
The dogs are no doubt more intelligent and better trained.
I’m becoming convinced that DC needs to be burned to the ground and all the inhabitants driven naked into the howling wilderness.
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> I’d think circus clowns would be more appropriate.
I vote for Pennywise!
Therapy dogs sighted on Capitol Hill amid stress of first public impeachment hearing
Sorry.
YES! A super-sized Improvement!
I’d join you, but only on the condition that he gets to rip the guts out of a few plotters and seditionists.
I am surprised the dogs allowed the snakes to pet them.
Poor puppies. They may never get that smell out of their coats.
Did the dog sniff Schiff’s butt?
I'm waiting for the FAT LADY to sing...
Well said
It does seem to me to be VERY culturally insensitive to the uoslims.
Therapy goats… no, that could be a worse problem.
YES! A super-sized Improvement!
Let the dogs and cats run the damned Congress!
From the web, history dot com channel.. this brief excerpt ...
“According to the ancient historian Suetonius, the Roman emperor known as Caligula loved one of his horses, Incitatus, so much that he gave the steed a marble stall, an ivory manger, a jeweled collar and even a house. Another chronicler, Cassius Dio, later wrote that servants fed the animal oats mixed with gold flakes. Famous for his madness and brutality, Caligula allegedly committed incest with his sisters, fed prisoners to wild beasts and had conversations with the moon—so coddling a beloved horse might seem among the lesser of his various evils. But did he really plan to make Incitatus a consul and only fail to do so because his assassination happened first, as Suetonius would have us believe?
Like much of what we think we know about Caligula, the story of Incitatus’ consulship comes from a writer who lived decades after the maligned emperor’s four-year reign. Historians think that Suetonius and Dio based their scathing accounts of his life on rumors and legends—or simply fabricated sensational tales that turned a not-so-great ruler into an epic villain. Many scholars reject the notion that Caligula terrorized Rome with his unbridled madness, arguing that his fellow lawmakers would likely have whisked him out of power for such conduct. So while Caligula might have had an unusual fondness for his horse, it’s unlikely the emperor went so far as to appoint the stallion.
But what if Caligula actually did plot to create Rome’s first equine official? According to historian Aloys Winterling, author of “Caligula: A Biography” (2011), insanity isn’t the only logical explanation for such behavior. In his book, Winterling makes the case that many of the emperor’s wackier stunts, including his treatment of Incitatus, were designed to insult and humiliate senators and other elites. By bestowing a high public office on his horse, then, Caligula aimed to show his underlings that their work was so meaningless an animal could do it.
Heck, I need the alcohol now.
I’m with you 100%. Who would dream up such a stupid thing and who in Congress would approve it? We actually ELECT people and they HIRE staff people who are so damned fragile? Where are the MEN? These are the people who seek to decapitate the PRESIDENT?
We should arrange care packages of thousands of these...
The week is still young. I’m hoping for straight jackets and rubber rooms for the failed seditionists.
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