Whore House

My internal irony-detector exploded yesterday, when, on the eve of Earth Day, the U.S. House passed an energy bill to open up the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The bill, a mostly Republican effort (surprise, surprise), also shielded makers of MTBE, a gasoline additive, against litigation for their contamination of drinking water supplies in 29 states, thus leaving those states to bear the burden of up to $29 billion in cleanup costs.

Unofficial reports show that House members' Mother's Day plans remain unchanged - whoring their own mothers out to the highest-paying John.