That’s right kids, we’re breaking news!

Sources [the credible kind] have told FamousDC that the stank that’s been lingering throughout the Senate side of the Capitol today is exactly what you suspected it was: Poo.

Apparently the odor is the result of a sewage line being left open in the Capitol hideaway of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, where workers have been busy scrubbing away a half-century’s worth of bad memories, secrets, ex-campaign aides and general nastiness the likes of which we can’t even begin to comprehend.

We’re leaving it there. The metaphors and imagery are just too terrifying.