Cliff Clavin vs Al-Qaeda

 Union Wants Mailmen To Thwart Terror Attacks

As the United States Postal Service looks at ways to cut budgets and deal with declining revenue, the president of the National Association of Letter Carriers is going against the grain by suggesting the agency should be increasing the services offered, including thwarting terrorists.

Well, now there’s an idea.  Cliff Clavin and Newman heading up a terrorism strike force between deliveries of the Sears catalog, all under the crack supervision of yet another government union.

George Costanza: “Aren’t postal workers the guys that always go crazy and come back with a gun and shoot everybody?”

 Newman: “Sometimes…”

Elsewhere, the quote of the day belongs to John Conyers, the slatternly Democrat from Michigan, to whom re-election is more important than the future of the country:

“This is the first time that I can remember being confronted by members of the Congress, my colleagues, who say, ‘I don’t care if I get reelected or not, I want to cut the budget by $100 billion or whatever,'” said a bewildered Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), who was first elected to Congress in 1964. “I’ve never seen that kind of a member before. … It’s a dangerous point of view from my perspective.”

 Not as dangerous, though, as sending Conyers and the rest of his collegial spendthrifts back to Washington.