Jon Stewart Bashes Congress for Over-Congratulating Itself for Fixing a Problem It Created
Inspired by our legislators' recent celebration of their bipartisan "Doc-Fix" Medicare measure, Jon Stewart and other "Daily Show" correspondents imagine what life would be like if "normal people" reacted the way Congress does to "the dutiful executing of basic occupational tasks."Inspired by our legislators’ recent celebration of their bipartisan “Doc-Fix” Medicare measure, Jon Stewart and other “Daily Show” correspondents imagine what life would be like if “normal people” reacted the way Congress does to “the dutiful executing of basic occupational tasks.”
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