A car may have backfired in the top floor of the Rayburn Building in Washington DC or perhaps some fire crackers, but when an anonymous phone call stated that they heard gunfire; they shut down the Building.
Then they locked the doors and shut down the place.
But what really happened? Did someone simply want a 4-Day Weekend since it is a three-day weekend? Sounds like someone is abusing the system and certainly not caring much about their jobs or duty to run the People's government? Maybe there was some shots fired? For instance maybe a Lobbyist had a gay lover spat with one of the Congressional Staffers? Maybe someone simply did not want to work today? But either way the entire government was shut down and for six hours everything stopped.
Why? How come one anonymous phone call can shut down our government? These are the same people who send our boys to war, but are afraid of reported gunfire? Please what a bunch of wimps, but alas they are all now off to "Strategy Sessions" and in Washington DC talk that means they are going down to the local taverns to start drinking on our dime.
This is your ineffectual government at work; how does that make you feel? Consider this in 2006.