Your weekend sendoff: Why U.S. senators shouldn’t get dressed in the dark
The Washington bureau of Time magazine is moving, and reporters are sorting through the debris of journalism, to see what’s worth packing and what goes into the dustbin of history.
This was posted today on Swampland, the bureau’s blog, by Karen Tumulty. She is keeping her favorite press release of all time, issued by the late Sen. Howell Heflin of Alabama, who was then 73:
That morning, the Senator had been dining in the Capitol with some Alabama reporters, and suddenly felt a sniffle coming on. The reporters were aghast when the Senator reached into his pocket, pulled out a bit of fabric and began to wipe his nose with … a pair of ladies underwear.
Hence the following:
STATEMENT OF SEN. HOWELL HEFLIN
HANDKERCHIEF
JULY 19, 1994I mistakenly picked up a pair of my wife’s white panties and put them in my pocket while I was rushing out the door to go to work.
Rather than take a chance on being embarrassed again, I’m going to start buying colored handkerchiefs.
There’s a lesson in there for all of us. Have a good weekend.
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8 comments Add your comment
DannyX
June 12th, 2009
5:42 pm
Pulling out a pair of ladies underwear may mean no re-election for this poor guy, who would vote for a cross-dresser in Alabama? Now if he had pulled out a Huggies or Pampers diaper he would have been assured of a landslide victory.
herbK
June 12th, 2009
6:53 pm
Jesus tap-dancing on a saltine! No, those senators have issues by the fact they
have NO TESTICLES to do what is right. Chambliss & Isakson are cowards and
worthless.
Keith
June 12th, 2009
7:38 pm
Guess you’re not familiar with Ted Kennedy’s “Senator Sandwich”. A few years ago he and another senator were dining at a local DC hangout… got wasted and they ended up with a waitress under the table.
Curly Girly-man
June 13th, 2009
8:26 am
Most of GOP guys are running around in ladies’ underwear. If we wear any at all.
(Here’s a mental image for you – Heflin in a thong…)
Curly Girly-man
June 13th, 2009
8:28 am
Keith, I’m sure you’re like most of us GOPers – we get drunk and have sex with each other.
I’m just a beer or two away from an afternoon of homosexual sodomy…
albert
June 13th, 2009
10:29 am
A year or so ago a guy came into my wife’s office. He made the rounds talking to anyone who would listen. He had on a NFL type parka with velcro on the hood. Stuck to the velcro was a pair of ladies under ware
RGB
June 13th, 2009
10:16 pm
Two words: Barney Frank.
Chief
June 14th, 2009
10:03 am
At the age of 73, he should be home with his wife and not in Washington, DC. That has a lot to do with the problems we have nowadays! It’s time for term limits. Why do we continue re-elect the same politicians over and over and over?