Record for Worst Congress of All Time So Close Boehner Can Taste It- Observed by Andy Borowitz

[Mira]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—With six fingers of Johnnie Walker swirling in his favorite tumbler, John Boehner speaks with the quiet assurance of a man on the brink of something big.
Just three workdays remain until Congress packs it in for 2013, and the House that Boehner presides over is about to set the record for the least productive year in its history—a quixotic goal that the tawny Ohioan set for himself when he arrived in Washington, in 1991.

“Like most of us, I came to this town hoping to make history,” he says, refilling his tumbler. “And, damn it, that’s what I’m about to do.”
Downing his glass in one gulp, he reflects upon “all the little things that had to go right” to make the year of epic underachievement possible.
“There were the Benghazi hearings, of course, and all the votes to repeal Obamacare,” he says. “But when we shut down the government in the fall, I started thinking, Jesus, the record—it could happen.”
During those heady shutdown days, Boehner didn’t dare speak about the record he had long dreamed of setting—“didn’t want to jinx anything”—but with Congress’s work year set to end on Friday, he now admits, “I’m so close I can taste it.”

Yesterday, when members of his caucus came up with a bipartisan budget deal, Boehner “had a little come-to-Jesus meeting with them,” he says. “I told them, I’ve worked too long and hard for this record, damn it. Don’t mess it up at the last minute by accomplishing something.”
So with the record for worst Congress seemingly in the bag—“I can cross that off my bucket list,” he says—what does John Boehner do for an encore?
“It’s going to be tough to make next year’s Congress even worse,” he says, pouring himself another tall one. “But it’s going to be fun trying.”

[longship]

1. Borowitz nails it again! R&K nt

[DetlefK]

2. Six fingers of Whisky in one gulp? That's the tell-tale sign that it's satire.

[Mira]

3. Well, it's Borowitz

but then.....
he is talking about Boehner.

[DetlefK]

5. It sounded so convincing. It was the bit about the whisky that made it seem unreal.

[Mira]

6. Is it the two of us again? Hi DetlefK

You do know that Boner is drunk most of the time, don't you?
That does not come from small amounts of whiskey.
Keine Fingerhüte oder stamperl voll mit Schnapps.


(thimble fulls for the non-German readers)

[DetlefK]

8. Lieber Schnapps aus dem Wasserglas als Wasser aus dem Schnappsglas.

[Ikonoklast]

4. For Congressman Boehner, that's called 'breakfast'.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Boehner drunkenly slurred

And they thought I'd never amount to anything.

[Berlum]

9. k & r

excellent