Just a word | Silas & Eric
1pm, Capitol Hill | @silassanford
Eric hated the capitol in many ways, compared to the dignity of the White House the endless halls of offices and flitter of every kind of person under the sun (rarely around for good reasons) was a pretty picture of everything wrong with democracy. In and out come the deals, the pacts and the trades. Where Senators and Representatives hide away from the very states they swore to represent but never care to see the condition of until election time.
Perhaps it’s why he may never truly make it as a politician. He had, of course, some aspirations for higher office, but he planned on making it without having to ever put his foot on that cursed Senate and House floor. Let the pawns dance around the campfire, watching the nation burn while fueled by their incompetence. The real adults would do the rest.
Silas Sanford was one such adult, but also a craven opportunist that always made Eric’s mouth taste foul. It wasn’t hard to be a gun-loving, so-called Christian and pro-lifer in Alabama, but everyone knew that Silas did more than just play to his base. Eric had been around Washington DC enough to hear the tales of a man who will just about promise anything to anyone if it means a leg up. You’d struggle to squint and actually find an honest social agenda behind anything Silas did, but that was preciously why he was such a threat. You didn’t fault a snake for using its venom.
If he could help it, he would leave all this slugging around and quiet words to those who enjoyed the whole sick fiasco, but there were moments he had to get into the ring too. In the name of the law, or so he told himself. The Disarmament Bill may have passed, but only fools think that legislature lives only on the floors of congress, especially not when it came to policy change such as this. The next stage was the real world, where lawsuits and constitutional challenges were abound. And it was his job, as White House Counsel, to protect the President’s position as much as he could, which included talking to scaley creatures like Sanford.
He knocked the on Senator’s door with a faint sigh, pulling his suit jacket a little closer as he readied himself to enter the pit and hope he didn’t get poisoned.