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bustarbusto Donating Member (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-03-06 09:54 AM
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Boehner Rises Above Taint (humor)
Boehner Rises Above Taint

By Ion Zwitter, Capitol Hill Special Correspondent
Washington, D.C., February 13, 2006

Recently-elected House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) vowed tonight to "rise from the partisan taint" that has divided capitol hill in recent years. Speaking before reporters and lawmakers from both parties in the Capitol Building's ornate neoclassical Marble Perineum, Mr. Boehner said he would do everything in his power to "ascend from the unwholesome gulf that separates vital components of this great deliberative body".

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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-03-06 09:56 AM
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1. I'm not sure it's working for them.
I heard several Pub callers on WJ this AM who said "the Pubs claim they are cleaning things up, and then they just vote in more of the same!"
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-03-06 10:34 AM
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4. Not to mention they had more votes in the first ballot than voters
we should have known right then.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-03-06 09:59 AM
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2. now that's a headline worthy of The Onion! n/t
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-03-06 10:36 AM
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5. That was my thought exactly. -NT
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-03-06 10:03 AM
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3. That whole ascending from the unwholesome gulf thing is quite an image.
I picture wavy lines of stench, myself. Mr Boehner sure has a way with words.
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