Emergency Team Of 8th-Grade Civics Teachers Dispatched To Washington

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WASHINGTON—With lawmakers still at an impasse over increasing the debt ceiling, a special team of 40 eighth-grade civics teachers was air-dropped into Washington earlier today in a last-ditch effort to teach congressional leaders how the government’s legislative process works. “We started them off with the basics, like the difference between a senator and a representative, and then moved on to more complex concepts, like what a resolution is,” Bozeman, MT social studies teacher Heidi Rossmiller told reporters as all 535 members of Congress copied down the definition of “checks and balances” from a whiteboard in the House chamber. “It’s been a bit of an uphill battle, since most of them seemed to have no real sense of how or why a bill is passed, and Sen. Reid had to come up to me during a break and ask, ‘Ms. Rossmiller, what happens if Congress can’t reach a compromise?’ But hopefully it will all start to sink in soon.” At press time, an unruly House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had noisily stormed out of a lecture on bipartisan cooperation, claiming it was “too hard.”

http://www.theonion.com/articles/emergency-team-of-8thgrade-civics-teachers-dispatc,21023/

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1. I like it!

You should send in a follow on mission with a few AP Government teachers for those bright, shining potential leaders in Congress.....Oh wait, their are no leaders in Congress, just a bunch of whiny 2nd graders who need a lesson on Compromise and how to play well with others...

[Historic NY]

2. LOL....I hope they instruct the fantasizing freshman wankers... McCain mentioned.

[Ship of Fools]

3. I'm getting better at identifying The Onion! It only took the title this time!