Rachel Maddow told a story on her MSNBC show last night that really had me laughing, and has continued to make me smile and laugh all day whenever I think about it.
It was about a U.S. Senator named Larry Pressler, and I was able to find Maddow's story on a Web site so I can share it with you.
Quote:It was the early 1990s, Larry Pressler was on the Commerce Committee. They`ve having a hearing about something. Senator Pressler got up to leave the hearing room in the middle of the hearing, presumably to go to the bathroom, or something like that. But he apparently picked a
door at random through which he wanted to leave. Unfortunately for him,
the door picked was not a door that went like into a hallway or into some
other room or to any other exit from where he was. The door he chose was
the door to a closet. Instead of promptly rectifying his mistake
though, Larry Pressler walked into the closet, and remained inside the closet for 15 minutes presumably hoping the prying eyes outside would disperse. When Larry Pressler finally reemerged after standing in the closet in the dark for 15 minutes, he tried to act as if nothing had gone wrong. He looked back in the empty space in the closet, waved as if he was saying goodbye to someone and then closed the door. Then he located the real exit from the committee hearing room and finally did leave as the audience laughed at him.
I'm laughing right now, just thinking about that dingbat Senator standing in a dark closet for 15 minutes, and then turning to wave goodbye to its interior.
I wish that shows, like Maddow's, that focus on politics, would provide us with more such funny stories and moments about our esteemed lawmakers, simply as comic relief.
After posting the above, I went on to read more stories about Larry Pressler
that have given me a few more laughs
Quote:Senator Ted Kennedy has also said to have once asked a former colleague of Larry Pressler, quote, "Has he had a lobotomy?" Tom Daschle, the one-time Senate majority leader from South Dakota, home state colleague of Larry Pressler used to say about him, quote, "A Senate seat is a terrible thing
to waste." Larry Pressler was a three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota
as a Republican. He has since left the Republican Party and become an
independent but his reputation when he was in Washington was really out
there. I mean, when he lost his Senate seat in 1996, he was the only
incumbent Republican who lost his Senate seat that year.
What's not so funny now is that Larry Pressler is once again a candidate for the Senate in a three way race in South Dakota, and he's polling near the top.
, so I figured I'd let the cashier price it.
