The Beltway Assassin
“Significant portions of the highway could turn into a parking lot with the slightest provocation, be it a fender bender, a struck deer, or a wayward yellow cone on the side of the road.
Max McBride gunned his BMW M6 forward another ten feet in his plodding and inexorable progress to the exit in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He grumbled as his wipers shoved aside another sheen of freezing rain. Red taillights glared at him through the drizzle.
“Come on,” he said as he checked his cell phone for... the time. He was scheduled to speak at a Heritage Foundation grip and grin, but this traffic wasn’t cooperating with his plans. DC had some of the worst traffic in the nation on a good day. Add moisture to the equation, and spilled molasses could make better time.
McBride picked up his speaking notes from the passenger seat and went over the main points of his speech for the umpteenth time. Monetary policy and the Fed’s artificially low interest rates wouldn’t excite most listeners, but the Heritage Foundation, which had several senators and congressmen from the nation’s more conservative districts, was interested.MoreLess
Max McBride gunned his BMW M6 forward another ten feet in his plodding and inexorable progress to the exit in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He grumbled as his wipers shoved aside another sheen of freezing rain. Red taillights glared at him through the drizzle.
“Come on,” he said as he checked his cell phone for... the time. He was scheduled to speak at a Heritage Foundation grip and grin, but this traffic wasn’t cooperating with his plans. DC had some of the worst traffic in the nation on a good day. Add moisture to the equation, and spilled molasses could make better time.
McBride picked up his speaking notes from the passenger seat and went over the main points of his speech for the umpteenth time. Monetary policy and the Fed’s artificially low interest rates wouldn’t excite most listeners, but the Heritage Foundation, which had several senators and congressmen from the nation’s more conservative districts, was interested.MoreLess
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