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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatching the gift giving: Boehner does NOT want to be there.
Either that, or he needs a drink.
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Watching the gift giving: Boehner does NOT want to be there. (Original Post)
lexw
Jan 2013
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)1. I think he's happy to be there as long as there's an open bar.
avebury
(10,952 posts)2. Please catch me up. I just got
back from running an errand. What did the Obamas and Bidens get?
Auggie
(31,163 posts)3. Engraved Lennox vases
of the White House and Capitol. They're huge.
AnnieBW
(10,424 posts)4. That's probably one of the only times that Boner
has halfheartedly lifted a drink.
onenote
(42,694 posts)5. of course he doesn't
but then again, if romney had won, none of the officials from our side would want to be there either. But it really is one of the strengths of our system that people who disagree deeply with one another can sit down together for events such as the inauguration
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)6. No George W Bush in attendance?
lastlib
(23,213 posts)7. AWOL--AGAIN..........
a fact which diminishes the event none in the least.
madamesilverspurs
(15,800 posts)8. We were pleased to see Boehner
drinking from his glass instead of directly from the bottle. . .
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