Rep. Issa: GOP Senators Who Voted for Fiscal Bill Likely Were Drunk (Video)

That explains it.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) joked that GOP Senators must have been drunk when they passed the fiscal bill last night after midnight.
Via Think Progress:

Transcript via Think Progress:

BLITZER: All of those 89, including all of those conservative Republicans, including Pat Toomey and others, they were wrong?

ISSA: You know, Wolf, frankly I can’t account for what happens after midnight and all of that partying and revelry and drinking that goes on on New Years Eve at 2:00 in the morning. What I can tell you is they did half of a bill. The half of the bill certainly is going to be popular in the way of holding down taxes but the other half is there’s no spending reductions…. In other words, $4 trillion will be added to the debt over ten years with this tax cut unless we do some spending cuts to help offset it. Right now the president is still in a spending mood. We need to get him in a savings mood.

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