No water, no hot water?
The Mayflower hotel is known as a hangout place by DC politicians, apparently they like to have power breakfasts here. I suspect that the politicians are also running the hotel...to the ground. For instance, my room had no water this morning, later it did not have hot water. By nighttime I overheard other hotel guests complain about the absence of water. My water faucet handle fell apart.
I know that the recession has hit the US hard, but I am assuming that the nation's capital is able to provide running water to its citizens, though not to hotel guests staying at the Mayflower.