First paragraph brings you right into the world of completely naked white guys showering like a thunderclap punching you in the mind's eye. Shower begging, that has to be a new criminally low point in human social evolution.
Beyond that, the article makes the process of winning over votes sound no different than either college kids making sure their Bro's are going to the Chi Psi kegger this weekend or a dumped boyfriend who can't understand where it went wrong. In the dumped column:
“I need your vote. I want your vote,” Walberg recalled House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) telling him at one point during the day. “Why can’t I have your vote?”In the Chi Psi kegger column... yelled in the shower referenced at the beginning:
“Hey, Walberg! Are you with us?”The article goes on to cover some of the representatives who changed their minds from a No on Boehner's plan to a yes. What's frightening is how arbitrary it all feels.
Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.), a former car dealer, mulled his decision over a glass of Jack Daniel’s whiskey. “Jack and I think about things now and then,” he said. He was a “yes.”That covers action movie cliche, how about we saddle on up to incoherently insane:
A few days ago, Rep. Mike Kelly (Pa.), a car dealer and a freshman legislator, had seemed dead-set against a compromise like this one. Now, he was literally shouting for it. “Buckle your chin straps. Run out on the field. Let’s knock the [expletive] out of them!” Kelly, a former Notre Dame football player, told the group, a witness said.In the end, a lot of the tactics described run parallel to high school peer pressure. These legislators don't seem to have any more rational thought behind their changes in stance than a skittish cat does when it decides to sprint randomly under the couch.
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