Posted at 11:00 AM ET, 08/01/2011A sugar-coated Satan sandwich, with a side of peas, please
By Melissa Bell
The U.S. Capitol building on Monday morning. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) With a debt deal reached after weeks of negotiations, the country might be breathing a sigh of relief that an end to the political posturing is near. But what posturing it was.We were going to cover the moon in yogurt. President Obama was a jilted lover left weeping at the alter. There were reports of hobbits and trolls infiltrating the Capitol.
Oh, the merry-making wordplay wound its way straight into this journalist’s heart. Thanks to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, the festivities have yet to end, despite a deal being reached.
Cleaver declared the deal “a sugar-coated satan sandwich.”
What is a Satan sandwich exactly? According to a 2004 Urban Dictionary definition, it’s “The chiefest of hell’s dark delights, it is said that just one bite of it arouses an unspeakable lust of terrific potency.”
I’m not sure that’s what Cleaver meant, or I’ve been following the debt debate all wrong. The Twitter peanut gallery is already gleefully embracing the new meal. It seems to be a bigger hit than Obama’s peas.
