Makes You Want To See Sausages Being Made

You will recall from the Schoolhouse Rock lecture every Saturday morning that a bill usually goes through committee before being voted on in the House or Senate. This committee ‘markup’ process makes for great theater.

Opening statements are akin to Spring Training where everyone is hopeful and optimistic that everything will proceed smoothly and people will work together.

You often hear statements such as:

--“I want to commend the chairman/chairwoman for all of his/her hard work on this bill…”
--“I want to thank the chairman for working with us and incorporating some of our ideas...”

The comity usual transforms into a comedy and degenerates into statements like:

--“Get your head out of your ass!”
--“Your mother sucks cocks in hell!”
--“You wouldn’t know a good idea if it fell from the sky, sat on your face, and started to wiggle.”

All this for just a bill, only a bill, sittin’ there on Capitol Hill.