I Knew This Would Happen Someday

Well shit. I knew this would happen someday, and now that day is here (and has been for a while, I know). The gentleman above is Kevin Madden - CNN commentator, former Romney Press Secretary, All around dashingly handsome and charming guy... and former Capitol Lounge regular.

For anyone who doesn't know, the Capitol Lounge is a bar situated just 2 blocks from the Capitol building, and has been an institution among the capitol hill set, both young and old. I was a bartender there for a few years, and the place was a mad house. It's amazing what you learn about people at 3 in the morning, after they've been on the same barstool for the past 6 hours. The longer I worked there, the more I came to dread the day that these people actually started to be in real positions of power. But I knew it was coming. The first time I saw one of them featured in Time Magazine last year I almost choked. And now this.

To be fair to Kevin, he was always very nice. Never started a fight. Never got sloppy drunk. Always said please and tipped well. As far as bar regulars go, I really liked him. I think what's so disturbing about seeing my Lounge Folk in the national spotlight is losing the sense that people in real positions of power - and the people commenting on them- were somehow different and only two dimensional. But now it's our turn, and I know these guys. Right now it's just a CNN pundit (and really, Madden was clearly born to be on TV). But someday, one of those F*ers is going to be president. And I'll probably know all about that time that he or she drank 6 shots of Jaeger and fell down the stairs after stripping of their shirt and punching their best friend in the face.

God Bless America.