The US House of Representatives uses voting cards. You put them in the slot and record your vote. It's simple, easy, and quick.
Alan Grayson (D-FL) started noticing that an awful lot of GOP House members seemed to be misplacing their voting cards.
They’d all walk to the front of the House and, laughingly and jokingly, put their arms around each other’s shoulder like it was some kind of clownish fun. And they did this over and over to make sure every vote took half an hour. That’s how low things have gotten. I could give you countless examples just like that. They’re simply obstructionists and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Major league baseball has an expression for this. It's "bushleague." "Bushleague" is play or behavior that is amateurish, second-rate, not up to professional quality, of the type found in the "bush leagues," which are minor league teams of mediocore quality. Example: "That was a bushleague call, ump."
The US House of Representatives are the major leagues of American politics, but, sad to say, it seems to have its share of "bushleaguers."
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