Yelling Fire In A Crowded Congress

ITS THE SORT OF THING you expect to have happen maybe in a grade school, or Sunday school class of young kids. But not in the hallowed halls of the Unnited States Congress. Somebody accidentlally set off the fire alarm, and cleared the building. I've heard of this happening before, although I am hard put to understand precisely how a fire alarm can be set off "accidentally". Don't you have to break glass of twist metal or do something deliberate and physical to set off most alarms? I probably wouldn't be able to set one off if I had to. But it happened in the United States House of Representatives, and, fortunately, admirably, the guilty party came forth, and confessed his mistake. How, preciesly, he managed to make this mstake, again, is a bit of a mystery, but he made it, and owned up to it. And, since the House member who made this mistake is a Democrat, Republicans immediately suggested that perhaps it wasnt actually an "accident", that perhaps there was a hidden motivation, that perhaps the Congressperson set off the alarm to delay the impending vote on funding the government on a stop gap basis for the next forty five days. Conspiracy theories began to emerge and circulate. Admittedly, who among us is better at hastily fabricating some half baked conspiracy theory than a bunch of right wing Republicans? But, still. Evidently, Speaker McCarthy had made it known that he was, as a last gasp, desperate measure to avoid a disastrous government shut down, which would have interrepted regular pay for many military members and border security forces, among other undesirable consequences, had backed down from his hard core far right position, and was willing to compromise with the Democrats and forge a bill which would make it through both houses of Congress with bi-partisan support and approval. In his own words, Speaker McCarthy had decided to become "the adult in the room". Well, I suppose somebody had to. Word had gotten around that a vote was going to take place on the new bill soon, and the members were preparing to head back to the House chambers for the vote. Then the fire alarm went off. Now, admittedly, it did have the correct timing; it went off at the exact best moment to delay the impending vote, just speculating that somebody wanted to delay it for some reason, perhpas hoping for a few more minutes to try a last minute effort to scuttle and sink the bill, or whatever. But still, how much good would that have done? Why would anybody feel the need or desire to pull such a silly, childish stunt merely to delay a bill for a few minutes whose ultimate passage was by then a virtual certainty? No, for the sake of sanity, let's make the most reasonable assumption; that the gentleman accidentally pulled the alarm, unintentionally set off the fire alarm...somehow,, or other. I mean, my goodness, after all, he didn't try to deny doing it; he came forwad and admitted his mistake. Isn't that good enough? Or maybe he had no choice. Maybe somebody else was nearby, and knew exactly who did it the moment it happened. Nonetheless, we can enjoy a good laugh after all, because there are in fact Republcians who want to start an "investigation" of the incident, want to make a monstrous mountain out of a mole hill, over what appears to be nothing. But consider their point of view. If they don't find something else on which to focus our attention, like an impeachment inquiry of Biden or false fire alarm investigation, when we the American people will turn our attentions to the Republicans, to their crazy antics and crazier agenda and policies, and, worst of all, to their presumed presidential candidate, with all his associated legal and criminal baggage, excellent talking points all for Democrats.