The people of America voted, good luck with that congress!

The people of America voted, good luck with that congress!

Fifteen per cent of those surveyed “strongly agreed” with the statement, “Being torn limb from limb by a grizzly bear or devoured by a pack of rabid hyenas is too good for these people. They should be eaten, very slowly, by a colony of hungry fire ants. Yes, that’s it—fire ants. That would be amazing.”.

Read the whole thing in the +The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/10/poll-americans-divided-over-what-wild-animal-they-would-like-to-see-congress-mauled-by.html

#congress #shutdown

Poll: Americans Divided Over What Wild Animal They Would Like To See Congress Mauled By
Americans gave grizzly bears the highest job-approval rating, followed by polar bears, and by brown bears in a distant third.

2 Replies to “The people of America voted, good luck with that congress!”

  1. I would add a footnote to "the people of America voted". The popular vote for the House of Representatives in 2012 was actually won by the Democrats, even if they lost in number of seats. This is not to delegitimise the election: such a result is valid in a first-past-the-post system. But it does add a nuance to the "you voted it, you deserved it" argument.

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