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The Senate barbershop gets a trim.
Nutty News ^ | 3/18/2013 | Ryan

Posted on 03/18/2013 5:24:21 AM PDT by IbJensen

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There are many 'users' who I'd like to give a 'very' close shave. Wonder what Schmuckie Schumer would look like without an ear?
1 posted on 03/18/2013 5:24:21 AM PDT by IbJensen
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What, these perfumed princes can’t go to a regular barbershop in the d.c. area to have their ear and nose hair trimmed!?


2 posted on 03/18/2013 5:29:59 AM PDT by twister881
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To: twister881

They’re special.


3 posted on 03/18/2013 5:33:16 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: IbJensen
Arizona senator Carl Hayden quickly rejected Douglas’s efforts, gaining support by arguing that the barbershop was an important institution passed down from the great statesmen who came before them.

As an important institution I fully expect the Republic to crumble the day it closes it's doors. /S

4 posted on 03/18/2013 5:37:12 AM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: IbJensen

Just a small illustration of the madness that infects Washington, DC.


5 posted on 03/18/2013 5:48:16 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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Senators get taxpayer-funded haircuts?

What are their paychecks for?

6 posted on 03/18/2013 5:56:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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To: IbJensen

I can at least partially sympathize with the Senators about the convenience of having a barber on site. Heck, I wish we had that here at my office. Have a heckuva time getting to a barber that is working when I’m not.

But that doesn’t translate into a necessity for public funding of such an institution.

Couldn’t a barbershop space be provided, and then rented out on a daily basis to several barbers and their staffs - one organization gets Mondays, another Tuesdays, etc.? I imagine that the ability to advertise that a shop was one of 5 or 3 or whatever official Senate barbers would be valuable.


7 posted on 03/18/2013 5:57:31 AM PDT by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: chrisser

You know, it’s very easy to do yourself, especially for most older men. And how many young guys are there?


8 posted on 03/18/2013 6:01:28 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: IbJensen

Here is an idea, close it down, along with every other frill service they’ve given themselves.

They can get a haircut out in town, just like everyone else.


9 posted on 03/18/2013 6:03:41 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I have some clippers and thought about doing it myself.


10 posted on 03/18/2013 6:04:29 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Senators get taxpayer-funded haircuts?
What are their paychecks for?
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Maybe we need a woman to carry on this fight.
I know that WE wouldn’t stand still for having taxpayer hairdos for Lady Pols and Officials.

Just think,

“Lord knows what kind of politician ‘we’ would attract if not for giving them free haircuts or perms”

‘WE’ need a voice to hammer everytime one of these idiotic perks are uncovered.

My ‘favorite’ line is

“No telling what kind of candidate would show up without getting ............(fill in the blank)......

After all, go back 30-40-50 years and that was the ‘line’ that was used when all these perks were either being added or solidified, effectively keeping them intact forever.
Wonder how much a sitting Pol gets for his ‘hay’ allowance because he has to have a horse in DC as well as at home.

I haven’t really looked into to it BUT would it surprise ANYONE if ‘they’ weren’t still drawing perks that were instituted Day One and never upgraded?

Kind of like Phone Co still ‘charging’ fee from Spanish/American War.....(or they were till ‘exposed’ recently - ‘we’ know that the name was changed if nothing else, they aren’t going to ‘give up’ the 4 or 5 cents etc)


11 posted on 03/18/2013 6:08:44 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --I turn 75 next year- but remember, that's only 24 Celsius. (TKS R. Reagan))
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If any organization ran itself like Congress, but using its own money, it would be bankrupt within a few years. It wasn't until 1994 that they audit their own books. How many other organizations use pages to carry documents back and forth, or to do other small tasks. The whole setup sounds like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan
12 posted on 03/18/2013 6:14:03 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: SampleMan

In DC they can get afros.


13 posted on 03/18/2013 6:15:54 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: chrisser

I wonder if the women get free hair styling, too. You know what a good cut, color, and style cost these days? LOL


14 posted on 03/18/2013 6:18:31 AM PDT by GSD Lover
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How about the way they mince about on their toes referring to each other as ‘my honorable friend, or the honorable senator from Hackensack?

They need to get down and dirty and fight. Since we’ve got some old bags in the mix I think it would be acceptable for an enraged Republicrat to seize a Patty Murray and hit Diane Fineswine with her. Smacking Schmuckie Schumer around would be satisfying as well. As far as the simple Hairy Reed is concerned they should just depants him, shorts and all, then force him to walk around like that.


15 posted on 03/18/2013 6:21:06 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: xrmusn

The fone phactory collects the tax for the feds, they don’t charge it. Also the universal access fee’s for Mr. Gore. These taxes go for the Obama phones. Now there are enough stories about that EVIL phone company but let’s at least be accurate. Fair is too much to hope for. (48 years of service retired - I know where the skeletons are buried)


16 posted on 03/18/2013 6:33:18 AM PDT by vortec94
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To: IbJensen

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/17/so-the-senate-barbershop-is-a-thing-and-surprise-it-runs-at-a-deficit/

seems we are paying for senators hair cuts along with the Mooche’s billions in clothes.

Michelle’s clothes binges
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/10/analyst_places_27_billion_valu.html

yet they can’t find one single thing to cut...how about their salaries for one and platinum health care while our’s is RATIONED and comes out of our pockets.


17 posted on 03/18/2013 6:39:28 AM PDT by GailA ( those who do not keep promises to the Military, won't keep them to U)
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You forget we sit still while we are paying for MOOCH’s billions in clothing purchases, make up, hair care, and her families. On top of her/their vacations, miss use of AF1, personal parties, a staff for the dog...I have 3, and I take care of them.

I bet we are paying for her momma’s clothing and stuff too. Can’t have the First Hippo’s momma not wearing the same designer clothes as she does, it just would not be fair or equal.

STUPID MARXIST that they are.


18 posted on 03/18/2013 6:45:05 AM PDT by GailA ( those who do not keep promises to the Military, won't keep them to U)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Some people shouldn’t wield barber tools, I’m one of them. Some people shouldn’t try to talk on a cell phone while driving a car, I’m one of those too.

I went to a barber once. My wife was in the hospital and I needed a hair cut. I like having my wife cut my hair, I don’t have to pay her plus I can pat her on the butt while she’s doing it if I want to.

She cut my ear once, with a comb, of all things, made it bleed too. I’ve never let her forget it either.


19 posted on 03/18/2013 6:45:20 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: IbJensen

Two words, “Great Clips.”


20 posted on 03/18/2013 6:45:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
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