Actually, it sounds like a fine idea

The New South Wales state parliament has two restaurants, a bar, and a liquor store. Needless to say, the legislators makes use of them.

Instead of engaging in sober debate, politicians in Australia’s oldest legislature have been accused of drinking too much and drafting laws with slurred speech and red noses.
Lee Rhiannon of the minority Greens Party says some members of the New South Wales state Parliament are obviously under the influence of alcohol when they return to its debating chamber after taking breaks.
“After dinner … things get a bit raucous,” The Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday quoted as Rhiannon saying.

It occurs to me if we could get our own congresscritters liquored up a bit, they might get along a bit better. Either that, or break into a chorus of “Sweet Adeline,” which would beat the sort of stuff we usually hear from them.

(via Blather)