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Related: About this forumCongressional Seats Sell for Record Four Billion Dollars
Borowitz Report
Today 11:43 am
By Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Congressional seats are on pace to fetch a whopping four billion dollars on Tuesday night, a record-smashing sales figure that has exceeded the expectations of even the most optimistic insiders.
The seats, which include four hundred and thirty-five in the House of Representatives and thirty-six in the Senate, have attracted buyers from a broad spectrum of industries, including investment banking, energy, pharmaceutical, and gun.
With all of the uncertainty in the world today, the United States Congress is considered a very safe place for the rich to invest their money, said Charles Michollot, of the auction house Sothebys. Congressional seats are like Manhattan real estatethey arent making any more of them.
But Anton Pickardin, of the rival auction house Christies, sounds more skeptical. I hate to be a wet blanket, but these sales figures lack rhyme and reason, Pickardin said. When someone is willing to pay millions of dollars for a pre-owned Mitch McConnell, you know that people have lost their minds.
More here: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/congressional-seats-sell-record-four-billion-dollars
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I wonder how much Lindsey Graham went for?
TBF
(31,922 posts)I wouldn't put it past Graham to be paying the corporations to let him serve ... it's bad out there.
stage left
(2,934 posts)I wouldn't put anything past Graham or any of them. All I've got to say right now is the people of SC are just plain stupid and I completely despair of them.