Charles Schumer had a very bad day yesterday. You might even say it was dark.
"Today, Monday October 26, 2020, will go down as one of the darkest days in the 231-year history of the United States Senate."
For those keeping track, this is at least the third extremely dark day the Senate has had in the last few years according to Schumer. One was during the impeachment vote in January (when Joe Biden was busy calling for swift and immediate action to address the serious Covid-19 threat which you don't remember but will be required to in the future), and another time over a tax bill that did not go his way.
Yes, a tax bill.
For perspective, let's take a quick look at some other days that might be considered dark.
There was the time Democratic Congressman Preston Brooks nearly beat another Senator to death on the Senate floor. That sounds kind of dark. (I will observe without comment that the Senator's name was "Charles Sumner.")
How about the time in 1938 that Democratic Senator Theodore Bilbo, a staunch segregationist, arguing on the Senate floor in opposition to an anti-lynching bill said that:
"If you succeed in the passage of this bill, you will open the floodgates of hell in the South. Raping, mobbing, lynching, race riots, and crime will be increased a thousandfold; and upon your garments and the garments of those who are responsible for the passage of the measure will be the blood of the raped and outraged daughters of Dixie."
You'd think that would be up there.
And there was the time in the 1950s when nine senators dropped dead, mostly from heart attacks, over the course of two years, creating some chaos as the thin majority each party held kept changing due to the passings.
Sure those were pretty bad, but can they really stack up to the heartache of things not going Charles Schumer's way?
I think if there's one lesson we can all take away from this is you do NOT want to be the person to serve Schumer cold pancakes.
"Today, Thursday, November 19, 2020, will go down as one of the darkest days in the 62-year history of the International House of Pancakes…"
