OT: Friday fun part 2: Dem Real World

[whometense]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/garden/18roomies.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

...Think MTV’s “Real World” with a slovenly cast of Democratic power brokers. While Washington may have more than its share of crash pads for policy-debating workaholics, few, if any, have sheltered a quorum as powerful as this one. About a quarter-mile southeast of the Capitol, the inelegantly decorated two-bedroom house has become an unlikely center of influence in Washington’s changing power grid. It is home to the second- and third-ranking senators in the new Democratic majority (Mr. Durbin, the majority whip, and Mr. Schumer, the vice chairman of the Democratic caucus) and the chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee (Mr. Miller).

Mr. Delahunt, a six-term congressman, is the least prominent of the four but perhaps the funniest. More to the point, he is the only one willing to sleep in the living room with a close-up view of Mr. Schumer slumbering a few feet away in his boxers...

[beachmom]

1. Okay, I admit that fluff story was HILARIOUS!

Best line:

“Oh, will you stop with the rats,” said the annoyed fourth roommate, Representative George Miller of California. He owns the house and is sensitive to any suggestion that he harbors pestilence. It’s dicey enough that he harbors politicians.




Oh, and this would make a FABULOUS sitcom. With fiction, you can add sex if you want to force one of them off the show. It would be The West Wing meets Grumpy Old Men. I would watch that show.

[karynnj]

2. I'd watch it too.

I love the article - I never would have guessed that Dubin and Schumer would even get along with each other.

[wisteria]

3. Cute story, although a little to much info on Schumer in boxers. Yuck! n/t

[Inuca]

4. Great fun!

But I don't like the idea that my good senior senator eats so much junk food :-)!