I found this picture from the Hartford Courant hilarious, if not a bit troubling at the same time. It's from the Connecticut House of Representatives last night as they pushed a midnight deadline to approve a state budget. Depicted is the House Minority Leader (a republican) speaking to the chamber while a couple of his colleagues play solitaire on their laptops (it additionally appears that an unpictured lawmaker is watching a baseball game on the far right). Who knows if these lawmakers are dems, repubs or some combination thereof.Now, while funny, don't you think this is just a tad disrespectful? Even if you are bored out of your mind, keep the card games and baseball off the computer while a colleague is speaking. And it also begs the question, if these lawmakers had time to be bored and play games on the computer, then why did they run the budget approval right up until the midnight deadline? But I guess that would be asking for the political world to make too much sense, right? Can't have that.
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