Kent Brockman, Speaker and others in “Bart's Comet”

Kent Brockman

With our utter annihilation imminent, our federal government has snapped into action. We go live now via satellite to the floor of the United States Congress.

Then it is unanimous, we are going to approve the bill to evacuate the town of Springfield in the great state of—

Wait a second, I want to tack on a rider to that bill—$30 million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts.

All in favor of the amended Springfield-slash-prevert(sic) bill? [entire Congress boos] Bill defeated. [gavel]

Kent Brockman

I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work.