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The buzz of Capitol Hill in the morning |
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By Betsy Rothstein
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Posted: 09/06/07 06:40 PM [ET] |
It’s a typical morning on Capitol Hill. Police officers are at their posts, weapons in hand. Lines of men and women in suits snake out of the local cafés on Pennsylvania Avenue. They’re anxious to achieve that first caffeinated buzz of the day.
A male aide walks down Pennsylvania by the Library of Congress, furiously punching away on his BlackBerry. Thankfully, he manages to notice the traffic and people in his midst.
“Make that a double doppio,” a well-dressed man in a dark blazer and jeans tells the barista at Starbucks.
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) apparently has a tough time waking up. At 8 a.m., his alarm goes off the first time. At 8:15, the alarm goes off again. This time he throws it out the window, he jokes.
A longtime Republican lobbyist had this to say about his typical morning: “Drive to work, curse all the kids going to school and their parents for slowing down my commute; enter office and go straight for the coffee,” he writes. “Curse the secretary who failed to make any coffee, curse myself because it tastes terrible; grab The Hill, New York Times, Washington Post, WSJ,
Congress Daily, CQ Today; curse reporters for finding another Republican doing some nefarious act, and curse the Republicans for doing it.”
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