I smell a rat
I smell a rat.
Apparently I’m not the only one. Recent reporting by The Post’s Rachel Chason and others confirmed what the rest of the country has long suspected: “Rats are overrunning D.C.”
Complaints increased 50 percent in 2017 — which by complete and total coincidence is the year President Trump came to town — and are scurrying to another record in 2018. Of particular note: a 430 percent increase in rat complaints on Capitol Hill. The Post now offers an interactive “D.C. rat tracker,” where you can monitor your member of Congress the rodents’ spread.
Orkin, the exterminator, reports that Washington is the fifth “rattiest” metropolitan area in the United States. But because three of those ahead of us (Chicago, New York and Los Angeles) have larger human populations, it would appear that Washington is vying with Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco for most rats on a per capita basis. Or would that be a pro rata basis?
Most suspect that the culprit is the common brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), not to be confused with the black rat (Rattus rattus), the Himalayan field rat (Rattus nitidus) or others.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-smell-a-rat/2018/09/24/0b242042-c032-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html?utm_term=.246889378aa5
Dana Milbank owes me a keyboard. 
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