Does Anybody Read Literature Anymore?

Via Matthew Yglesias, I discovered that Newsweek has an article entitled A Modest Proposal: the Pelosi-Boehner Speaker Debates. Really? Newsweek considers that a modest proposal? My more modest proposal: Pelosi and Boehner should have to have a speed-eating contest. Pelosi must eat one of Boehner's daughters, and Boehner must eat one of Pelosi's children. Whoever eats the fastest wins the house. Let's see who is hungrier for the House.