Air conditioning ruined America

 
Photo by José Gregoria Sánchez Duarte, of San Cristobal, Venezuela

That's right. Air conditioning ruined America.

From TheHill.com:

It's official: Not a single conversation took place Monday that did not involve the weather. It's hot. It's gross. We know.

But let it be a comfort that Washington has always steam-cooked its inhabitants in August -- and some say that had some decent policy implications for the country.

Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) recalled chatting with former Sen. Jim Eastland, a Southern Democrat from Mississippi, asking the long-serving politician what was the most significant thing that happened since he took office in 1941.

"He looked at me and he said, ‘Air conditioning,'" Biden recounted on MSNBC Aug. 3.

"‘Before we had air conditioning,' he said, ‘that sun would beat down on that dome, heat up that place,' he said. ‘It would get too hot and we'd leave Washington, and we'd leave for the year,'" Biden quoted Eastland as saying.

"‘Then we got air conditioning, stayed year-round and ruined America.'"

I long for the days when the Congress would only meet for a few months every year. That way, we would avoid much of the dastardly deeds the Congress commits against the American people.

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