Not really a lot for me to say about the bailout package, but I stumbled on this funny sentence in the NYTimes:
After the overnight drafting efforts on both sides of Capitol Hill -- with pizza on the House side, and Thai food in the Senate -- Democratic officials said they had completed a unified draft of a bill.
1) Did the particular choices of overnight food affect the impressions of the relevant parties about the bill?
2) Do you think the House eats cheaper than the Senate? I mean, there are more of them...
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I was wondering the same thing. Pizza would definitely lead to more heartburn and the Senate is always considered a little more elitist than the House. I think it was a very interesting anecdote that says a lot about how each congressional branch is comprised and functions. I wish the media had a separate resource for these kinds of interesting facts.
You don't post enough. In fact, you make the readers bored, and I feel like I should take you off the bookmarks that I have. Please post more often.
It's a mafia thing. Some politicians need to be seen eating pizza or their funding dries up.