And When They Emerged, They’d All Learned Very Important Lessons About Each Other, Kinda Like That Episode of ‘The Odd Couple’ Where They Were Stuck on the Subway

Honestly, what can we possibly add to this:

Three suspensions were scheduled for Tuesday night’s customary 6:30 p.m. round of votes. But as the clock wore on past 40 minutes, members began to wonder what was taking so long. The answer came from the chair in the form of an announcement about their captive cohorts, to which a great sarcastic cheer went up.

Inside the approximately 5-foot-square elevator, the situation was a bit more grim. After half an hour, “it started to get pretty gamey in there,” quipped Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas).

Things might have gotten uglier were it not a purely partisan elevator. The lift contained only Republicans, also including Reps. Chris Chocola (Ind.), Curt Weldon (Pa.), Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.), Lynn Westmoreland (Ga.), Steve Pearce (N.M.) and David Dreier (Calif.).

11 Republican Representatives. It’s hard to think of 11 people we’d be more terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with. How many people were in the Baader-Meinhof gang?

Sadly, before they could be rescued, Representatives Pearce and Weldon were forced to eat Rep. Chocola, according to strict procedure set down, according to Rep. Weldon, “in Article II, section, uh… 12, yeah” of the Constitution.

A Very Close Encounter of the Elevated Kind [The Hill]

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