despite plenty of concern, some privately aired, among senators of both parties about the threat the tiny humans pose to the Senate’s cherished decorum.
I dare you to write something funnier.
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“But what if there are 10 babies on the floor of the Senate?” he asked.
Oh yes, the slippery slope of babies and thier diaper bags.
Congratulations! Senator Duckworth!
Don’t they already have more than 10 babies on the floor? Sheesh!
Well, there’s this:
But there still was some confusion.
Just after the unanimous vote, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said it would do the tradition-bound Senate some good to see “a diaper bag next to one of these brass spittoons, which sit on the floor, thank goodness, never used.”
Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe took issue with that, saying: “They don’t use diaper bags anymore. They’re disposable diapers.”
Diaper bags are generally used to carry clean diapers and other supplies when parents and babies go out. Sometimes, they hold dirty naps until they can be disposed of.
Lordy, Jim Inhofe’s an idiot.
Just after the unanimous vote, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said it would do the tradition-bound Senate some good to see “a diaper bag next to one of these brass spittoons, which sit on the floor, thank goodness, never used.”
Good point Durbin made. No currently sitting senator served during the days that the spittoons were used, but imagine what it must have been like with those foul-smelling buckets of wet tobacco sitting around. Not to mention the noises and other “unpleasant” behavior required to deposit the chewed tobacco in them. Good for Duckworth, and good for the Senate for recognizing a debate on this issue has no place in this day and age.
Waaay more than 10 babies.
Absolutely! I remember touring the Ohio capital and the guide talked about how they had to repaint the ceiling every two years to cover the tobacco smoke stains, then they just installed a drop ceiling (ewww.) in the 1950’s and it took millions to restore it in the 1980’s or 1990s. There is no way babies will cause that much damage to our precious senate debate floor.
(Fun/Horrifying Fact: the foundation bricks of the Ohio capital were made from an actual Indian burial mound they quarried the clay from. Ack.)