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Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Republicans: If they made the Daily Show's writers' jobs any easier, Viacom would have to pay them
Posted by Jill | 3:55 PM

Wait a minute....Viacom DOES pay them. It's called "campaign contributions."

But I digress.

What you are about to read is true. None of the names have been changed to protect the innocent.


Lawmakers who attended a closed-door meeting of the conservative Republican Study Committee last Wednesday watched a clip from the classic frat-house movie “Animal House” to find motivation to press the GOP leadership to include budget-process reform in the House budget resolution.

Conservative Republicans and centrist Republican leaders who attended the meeting attempted several times to get the GOP leadership to amend the budget process to make it harder to waive budget rules. By girding to face down Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), they apparently have begun to identify with the characters of Delta House in their showdown with the crusty Dean Wormer.

The lawmakers watched inspirational speeches by the characters Otter, the Delta House president, played by Tim Matheson, and Bluto, played by the legendary late Jim Belushi.

Otter: “I think in this case we need to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires something really futile and stupid to be done on someone’s part.”

Bluto: “We’re just the guys to do it. LET’S DO IT!!!!”

The leaked transcript of the script left out the off-color, and funnier, parts of the dialogue.

The unexpurgated version:

Bluto: “Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!”

Otter: “We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives.”

Nothing like a little frat-house humor to rev up the troops.

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