The halls of Congress have been crawling for years with lobbyists and influence peddlers seeking to cash in on government largess. However, one creature proved too much this year in the Senate. The Architect of the Capitol rolled out yellow police tape and sealed off a bathroom in the Dirksen Senate Office Building after a woman was spotted crawling with bed bugs while waiting to attend a Senate Indian Affairs Committee.
According to the article, the woman was a line sitter hired by lobbyists and others to hold a space for a hearing. The female placeholder was spotted by people in line with bed bugs reportedly crawling all over her. They were then also found in the nearby women’s restroom. The restroom was closed off with yellow tape as the Capitol Architect went into full bedbug containment mode.
And I would have thought that there would be some professional courtesy shown to an ancient bloodsucker on Capitol Hill. After all, they have some familiar attributes with other denizens of Capitol Hill moving through the halls from office to office. They “do not fly, but they can move quickly over floors, walls, and ceilings.” Once successful, “After feeding, however, their bodies swell.” They tend to multiply and gradually irritate and even weaken the hosts upon which they are feeding. One leading lobbyist was quoted as saying “My style of lobbying is not to have big formal meetings, but to catch members on the fly as they’re walking between the House and the office buildings.” Sound familiar? Give them an Armani suit and an expense account and one would think that they would fit in quite well.
Does the line sitter need an attorney?? 🙂
This is a case of poetic justice one parasite living off of another parasite.
To bad the bed bug stops feeding before they kill the host while the human parasites infesting the US congress will feed off the hoi polloi until the very end.
Personanongrata: Only if the hosts, the hoi polloi, allow it to happen. Refusing to let the human parasites in CONgress continue sucking blood by throwing them out for all their lies and corruption could be as effective as spraying or squishing a bedbug — tough, but do-able — but of course, that “ain’t gonna happen,” since the populace is too ignorant to recognize the system is broken and too lazy to do anything to fix it. Yes, it is too bad, indeed.
If any of you want a stingray device they can be found on the internet. Here is a story from the internet on stingray towers or spy devices and who his using them in your name.
“The National Security Agency isn’t the only government entity secretly collecting data from people’s cellphones. Local police are increasingly scooping it up, too.
Armed with new technologies, including mobile devices that tap into cellphone data in real time, dozens of local and state police agencies are capturing information about thousands of cellphone users at a time, whether they are targets of an investigation or not, according to public records obtained by USA TODAY and Gannett newspapers and TV stations.
The records, from more than 125 police agencies in 33 states, reveal:
• About one in four law-enforcement agencies have used a tactic known as a “tower dump,” which gives police data about the identity, activity and location of any phone that connects to the targeted cellphone towers over a set span of time, usually an hour or two. A typical dump covers multiple towers, and wireless providers, and can net information from thousands of phones.
MORE: Examples of data-gathering abuses
MORE: Cell data dumps: A legally fuzzy area
INVESTIGATION: How we did it
• At least 25 police departments own a Stingray, a suitcase-size device that costs as much as $400,000 and acts as a fake cell tower. The system, typically installed in a vehicle so it can be moved into any neighborhood, tricks all nearby phones into connecting to it and feeding data to police. In some states, the devices are available to any local police department via state surveillance units. The federal government funds most of the purchases, via anti-terror grants.”
I heard this morning on the email messages intercepted on my Stingray device that the Washington football team, presently known as the Redskins, are going to change their name to make the critics happy. New name: Bedbugs.
Ode to the Bed Bug Goddess …
That trans has been around the lower East side for a long time homies, and now goes from tattoo desk to tattoo office in Das Capitol und Das Hill:
At last, a suitable way to fight blood blood-sucking corruption. Bloodsucker warfare.
I had no idea “tassel loafer lobbyists” used line sitters. I love learning something new. When I was in Medellin adopting our son I fell in love w/ line sitters and paid them generously to put me up front @ the Colombian govt. offices and banks. It was worth every peso. When you stand in line there is a quaint custom in Medellin anyway. At around 10am it is the British equivalent of tea time. They serve “tinto.” And, not in paper cups, but in real china. Women, dressed in white dresses, serve it to those in line, like chai servers in India.
At the time I was in Medellin[1987] cocaine was the largest export. But, the other big export is coffee. Colombia exports virtually all of it’s good coffee. Unless you’re wealthy, you drink tinto. It is made of inferior coffe beans and blended w/ sugar. It’s usually pretty strong, reminding me of the coffee my Italian grandma drank. It may be a European influence. There are a lot of Italian Jews in Colombia, moving there in the 30’s and 40’s to avoid oppression. They built a textile industry there.
It looks like the lobbyists are paying homeless people to wait in line for them. That’s hilarious and sad on many levels.
The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.
Larry Hardiman
The symbolism available from this news is staggering. Government infested with disease-ridden pests. Hmmmmm.
Pay the lobbyist, spay the lobbyist and spray the lobbyist.
This thread bugs me. Put a Chameleon in the lady’s restroom to get rid of theses pests.
It frees up the washroom attendants to get rid of the lobbyists. 2 problems solved!
” … a woman was spotted crawling with bed bugs …” – JT
Terrorist !
Next we will hear that they called over the NSA and the CIA because they discovered the Senate building was bugged . . . and the Senators certainly don’t want to be bugged, even though they don’t care if the “security” agencies listen to and record everything everyone else has to say anywhere. Come to think of it, I can’t think of anyone else I would rather see have bed bugs more than our dear CONgress critters (particularly if it could be arranged as some sort of penalty for all their lies and corruption).
@pauls
That is why I call them “Irish Poems ” instead of “limericks.” But, I also do Haiku!
Tiny bugs crawling
Pale faces animating
Red skins arising
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Well, the professional parasites were obviously embarrassed by their country cousins. Insectophobes!!! This requires an Irish Poem :
Bugaboos
An Irish Poem by Squeeky Fromm
Consider Cimex Lectularius.
A social insect so gregarious!
But once under cover
You quickly discover
They’re bleeding you dry! How nefarious!!!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky – the Limerick is not Irish but English. However, the Irish Limerick is written in Gaellic.
could be woman and lobbyists crawling together….. Picture keeps morphing.
bettykath – if the bathroom were exclusively for lobbyists I would say leave it alone. However, I assume the general public uses it as well.
Mental picture: woman and bedbugs crawling on the tiled floor of the restroom.
I think that there should be a federal investigation into lobbyists who use place-holders. Someone is getting over-charged. Placeholders should be declared illegal and lobbyists should earn their own money standing/sitting in line. I would feel much better if they were the ones getting the bed bugs.
The bedbugs could save themselves by offering campaign donations.