Party at the Pence's!

by Pa Rock

Party Pooper

This week is Thanksgiving, a time when extended families usually gather to celebrate the start of the holiday season with feasting, football, and lots of family fun.  But like just about everything else in 2020, this year's celebrating has been modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic that is surging across the nation and around the globe.  The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is recommending that families do not travel and assemble in large groups for this year's celebrations, and the national coronavirus task force, which is headed by Vice President Mike Pence, has said that all indoor gatherings should be limited.

But Pence is not a regular attender of the meetings of the task force that he heads, so he may have not gotten the memo.   And whether or not his wife, Second Lady Mother Pence, knew of the official government guidance or not, she is not letting it spoil her holiday fun.

Yesterday Mother sent out invitations to members of the "Congressional Club" for a soiree at her and Mikey's official government housing - the old Naval Observatory in Washington DC.  The event, dubbed a "Christmas Craft" party, will be on December 9th at 1:00 p.m.  The email invitation recommended guests dress in "holiday attire," but it failed to address the topic of face masks, so they must be assumed to be optional.

The Pence's are very uptight upright and religious individuals, so perhaps they have arranged for divine interference to keep the rampaging disease at bay during Mother's party.

The "Congressional Club" is a social club for the spouses of senators, representatives, cabinet members, and Supreme Court justices.  It was founded more than a century ago and is located in a distinctive classical building with a domed rotunda that sits at the corner of 16th Street and New Hampshire in Washington, DC.  It is listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings.

Back when the Congressional Club was founded, all of the spouses were "wives," but that is no longer true today - so several "husbands" of prominent government officials may also be in attendance.  Mother is open-minded enough to probably handle that, but her holiday spirt may fade in the event that any same-sex spouses try to join the festivities.

If only they all were wearing masks, then at least she could act like she didn't know!

Hang tough, America.  The craziness ends on January 20th!