The Blog | Flavia Colgan: In the Senate, Double Secret Shenanigans | The Huffington Post
The Blog | Flavia Colgan: In the Senate, Double Secret Shenanigans | The Huffington Post
In the movie Animal House, in his incessant quest to get rid of the nuisance of the Delta fraternity, the evil Dean Wormer puts them on “Double Secret Probation.” It was a completely made-up term, which just made his desperation even more hilarious. For the past few weeks in the United States Senate, some unnamed Senator (who we now know to be the Republican Senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens) has used something called a “secret hold” to kill some common sense legislation.
It would be as funny as what Dean Wormer did, if it wasn’t an actual Senate procedure, and if the bill wasn’t of such importance.
When a US of A Senator (Republican from Alaska, Ted Stevens) uses Animal House’s Dean Wormer as a role model and tries to emulate him in the Senate there is a MAJOR problem in this country. Time to get the asshats out of office at any price! Too damn bad John is dead…