OT: Solution to troop causalities

In message news:Deo_h.7908$ snipped-for-privacy@news02.roc.ny, tak sprach forth the following:

"If they go off on vacation for two months while our troops fight - that would be the outrage of outrages," said Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn.

Uh, how long have CONGRESS's vacations since March of 2003 been?

Hey - they're hard working guys. I have no problem with their having a break, but only if it's here:

Electronic ankle bracelets on all of them. They can't go more than a mile from their hotel, and there should be warrants for their arrest if they break that rule. It MUST be a Ramada Inn. Preferably in a condition described in a Billy Joel song:

In hell there's a big hotel Where the bar just closed and the windows never open No phone so you can't call home And the TV works, but the clicker is broken