The donkeys, they are YOUR party! You, the great unwashed masses:
Reid noted that “In the summertime, because (of) the high humidity and how hot it gets here, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. “And that may be descriptive but it’s true. Well, that is no longer going to be necessary.”
Realizing that this seemed more suited for the opening of the Roman Senate under Augustus, he added: “My staff has always said, ‘Don’t say this,’ but I’m going to say it again because it’s so descriptive because it’s true.”
He’s celebrating the completion of a boondogle that blew $621 million on a big hole in the ground slash museum slash meeting rooms … oh, and propaganda for the “godless liberals”.
Despite winning a months-long battle to highlight the importance of religion in American life, DeMint said the center still misrepresents American history by downplaying the faith of the Founding Fathers and other prominent figures.
“The current Capitol Visitor Center displays are left-leaning and in some cases distort our true history,” DeMint said. The center’s “most prominent display proclaims faith not in God, but in government.”
DeMint, rated the most conservative senator by several think tanks and advocacy groups, also protested an engraved statement near the center’s entrance: “We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”
That quote was uttered by Rufus Choate, a Massachusetts lawyer who represented his state in the House of Representatives in the 1830s and in the Senate the following decade.
“This is an intentional misrepresentation of our nation’s real history and an offensive refusal to honor America’s God-given blessings,” DeMint said.
And if there is ANYBODY in DC who knows about misrepresenting history, it’s that wackjob fundie DeMint.
So, join your feudal rulers in celebration of the new Capital Visitor’s Center, where the hoi polloi are kept safely away from the important work of the Lords and Ladies and their courtiers from K Street. At least you won’t get wet while you eat cake.
