When US federal workers were missing paychecks and the partial government shutdown entered its seventh week, Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina, was doing what any responsible lawmaker would do: riding Space Mountain and carrying a bubble wand at Disney World in Florida.
Naturally, TMZ had photos of the vacationing senator on its homepage a few days later.
The celebrity tabloid empire – better known for staking out actors and artists outside restaurants, gas stations, courthouses and their palatial estates – has turned its paparazzi prowess on a new and maybe equally chaotic subject: the US Congress. And America’s lawmakers may find themselves uniquely ill-equipped for the Hollywood experience.
The outlet last week put out a public call for tips on lawmaker sightings as the partial government shutdown dragged on, leaving thousands of Department of Homeland Security employees without pay.
The U.S. Congress is not at war
Which is, itself, a Constitutional crisis. It’s unclear how you can spin their inaction into a positive.
I’m not spinning it into a positive.
Attacking these people’s free time will not help
No, it won’t change anything, but speaking truth to power is important. Honestly, “let the poor guys take a break” is intensive bootlicking.
I’m all for making these people suffer I’m just saying they are less likely to stand up to trump when there’s this abstract enemy that also opposes trump that yells at them for everything they do.
These people are our first line of defense against trump. If them taking a break from doing nothing gets them to do something then I’m all for it.
Our first line of defense failed roughly when Lindsey Graham decided that instead of Trump being the antichrist, he was actually the second coming.
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