DC bar offers $218 special to become ‘Speaker of the Pub’ amid House drama

No less than one Washington watering gap is capitalizing on the Speaker’s race drama within the Home, providing a $218 particular — one which comes full with a gavel.

Union Pub, a bar only a few blocks from the Capitol, is advertising its new “Speaker of the Pub” particular.

The $218 price ticket is a nod to the 218 votes wanted to win the put up. On Thursday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) misplaced a ninth vote to turn out to be Speaker after failing to achieve that threshold.

The pub’s politically infused promotion contains two buckets of Budweiser beer, eight pictures of whiskey, a bottle of wine and one other of “fancy champagne,” a platter of “totchos” — also referred to as tater tot nachos — and the so-called Speaker of the Pub gavel.

A Union Pub consultant didn’t get again to ITK concerning the specifics of the Speaker-themed grub. However the institution vowed to supply the expensive, boozy bundle till “a Speaker of the Home is elected!”

It’s not the primary time the Capitol Hill sizzling spot has performed off its proximity to political gamers.

Through the Home’s 2019 impeachment inquiry into then-President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, Union Pub was one among a number of D.C.-area eateries that opened its doorways early to air the proceedings and supplied drink specials. A number of the cocktails featured for the event included “Impeachment Please” and “I Obtained 99 Issues however Impeachment Ain’t One.”