They were supposed to be off for ........ are your ready ......... the rest of the year. Nice work if you can find it.
Nice of them to hang around and try to push an important bill or two through.
What a shit storm they've got going on. They need to high-tail it back home to do some campaigning. They've got this financial meltdown to deal with. To top it off, they're between a rock and a hard place. Do they follow the desires of their constituents and forsake the needs of the people who are truly lining their pockets or do they vote to keep the gravy train rolling in and risk not being re-elected.
That damned bill that won't allow them to get a job as a lobbyist for two years after leaving office sure sounded good at the time. Kinda biting them on the ass now.
I think they should vote to keep the payoffs rolling in. Homeland security will fend off the first wave or two of irate taxpayers with torches and hanging nooses in their hands. They just might have time to get out of dodge and escape the burning of the White House, the Congress and the Senate.
History in the making folks.