Want to Fix Washington DC? Start by Cutting the Washington A/C

From The Hill.

“ It’s hot. It’s gross. We know. But let it be a comfort
that Washington has always steam-cooked its
inhabitants in August — and some say that had some decent policy implications
for the country.

“Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) recalled chatting with former
Sen. Jim Eastland, a Southern Democrat from Mississippi, asking the long-serving politician
what was the most significant thing that happened since he took office in 1941.
“He looked at me and he said, ‘Air conditioning,’”

“Biden recounted on MSNBC Aug. 3. “‘Before we had air
conditioning,’ he said, ‘that sun would beat down on that dome, heat up that
place,’ he said. ‘It would get too hot and we’d leave Washington, and we’d leave
for the year,’” Biden quoted Eastland as saying.

“‘Then we got air conditioning, stayed year-round and ruined
America.’”