Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) uses a cell phone camera to record the Senate Judiciary Committee mark-up hearings to discuss the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill, September 22, 2005. From (L-R) are: Hatch, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Arlen Specter (R-PA), and Ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT). (Larry Downing/Reuters)

Our senators have turned into the woman that annoys me at my local bagel place by checking her email on her phone while she's supposed to be working the cash register. She once just took calls, but now she uses a little keyboard on her phone.

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[via Wonkette]