SloMotion

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) spends much of his time on Capitol Hill thinking up ways to prevent important legislation from coming to the Senate floor for vote such as budget plans (republican or otherwise), committee hearings, jobs bills, the Obama deficit reduction plan, Obama's tax-hike plan, fiscal-cliff legislation ... the list goes on and on.

But the guy has the time to stump for a waiver to allow snacks in the Capitol Visitors Center auditorium for a special screening of the movie 'Lincoln' because they don't allow food.

WTF is wrong with this picture?!?! I don't care if you're a hardcore conservative or a bleeding heart liberal, this has to strike you as a complete lack of priorities. This is what governing in America has become.

It's been said Nero played the lyre while Rome burned ... Harry Reid orders popcorn while his country goes over the fiscal cliff. How appropriate.

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OldMaid

I get tired of saying I agree with. I sound like a broken record, but I do agree with you.
Crazy.
This is crazy as US Congress having a gym to work out in. A health club.

They can get a membership to a health club of their own.
They can watch the movie, Lincoln , at any mall's cinema and see how hard the people, teens, some older adults trying to make a little extra work hard at the box office and concessions counter.

Is this Captial Screening Room another perk?
They do not need any special screening of a movie.

Our Congress tells us," Haha, Let them eat popcorn!!!"

Popcorn. Do they know much concessions cost at the movies and why?

SloMotion

No, it's the auditorium of the Capitol Visitor's Center where they'll have the screening of the new Lincoln movie for the US Senate. They tried to have it done in the Senate chambers, but they don't allow the Senate chambers to be used for anything except business ... what a concept, eh? Reserving the Senate chambers exclusively for the work of the people ... so let's blow off the legislative state of emergency the country is in & go watch a movie somewhere else during working hours, .

Only in America. It's time these guy hold themselves to the same standards of their constituents (us). We'd be fired for pulling stunts like that.

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Crusader

During working hours? Thats seems a little dumb, ministers over here goes to movie grand openings every now and then but that is always in the evening on their spare time.