Obama Will Use 20 Pens To Sign Bill

[Top Cat]

President Obama will reportedly use 20 pens to sign the health care bill, more than usual. The pens will be given out as keepsakes.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/live/countdown-to-reform-wire/

[vaberella]

1. Crazy. n/t

[golddigger]

2. Maybe he will use one

of them to sign "Public Option."

[tallahasseedem]

3. There are a lot of those...

that deserve one of those pens!

[NYC Liberal]

4. Yep, one for each letter of Barack Hussein Obama. nt

Edit: Er...if you count spaces! Heh. Nevermind.

[Cha]

10. ..

:)

[fugop]

5. Wait for the wingnuts!

"He's running up the deficit with unnecessary pens!!!"

[liberalpragmatist]

6. New RW Argument: "Obamacare is UNCONSTITUTIONAL b/c he signed it with 20 pens!"

nt

[LoZoccolo]

16. lol

:thumbsup:

[zbdent]

7. As had Bush43, Clinton, Bush41, Reagan, and

I presume, Carter and so forth.

Traditional. Was explaining this to Mrs. ZBDent this morning.

Of course, the RW meme will be "Look at all the pens Obama's using! How much will all those pens cost?"

The real collector's item will be the pen from Bush43's one and only pre-2007 veto ...

[Perky]

12. W just signed int with an "X"

[jillan]

8. I can hear it now - Out of control Gov't Waste and spending - lol.

But think of the jobs that were created to make those pens; and to deliver them.

[Perky]

9. self delete

to trivia points for the first person to tell me why.

[rocktivity]

13. Because he got 221 votes?

:shrug:
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[Perky]

14. Nope

[zbdent]

15. because each of the pens goes to a specific person as a gift

a "commemoration" of the signing of the bill. A piece of the history.

One pen for each letter of his name ... Barack Hussein Obama ... not sure what the 19th & 20th are for.

[rocktivity]

11. .

:boring:
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