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Boehner Negotiated Debt-Limit Hike 'While Having Merlot and Smoking a Cigarette'
Cybercast News Service ^ | September 17, 2012 | Melanie Hunter

Posted on 09/17/2012 9:52:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Speaking on CSPAN’s “Washington Journal” on Monday, Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward said House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) drank Merlot and smoked a cigarette and President Barack Obama drank iced tea and chewed Nicorette gum as the two met at the White House to negotiate increasing the federal government's debt limit.

“They’re having these private meetings in the White House—what Boehner calls the Merlot and Nicorette meetings. Just a week before that, he goes down to the White House, and they have a meeting on the patio off the Oval Office, and as Boehner says and Obama confirmed when I interviewed him, Boehner’s having Merlot and smoking a cigarette, and the president is having ice tea and chewing a Nicorette to keep him from going back to smoking,” Woodward said. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boehner; debtlimit; obama; rinos
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To: JRandomFreeper
uskebeaghe

uisge beatha to cure what ail ya.

21 posted on 09/18/2012 12:34:05 AM PDT by RC one
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To: Olog-hai

What the heck does it matter what they drank? The media must be desperate for a story.


22 posted on 09/18/2012 3:53:24 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: Olog-hai

I guess Boehner never say Sideways.


23 posted on 09/18/2012 5:50:26 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Oratam
say = saw

need more coffee

24 posted on 09/18/2012 5:51:11 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Olog-hai

I doubt Woodward was there.


25 posted on 09/18/2012 5:55:52 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Olog-hai

no wonder that bitch cries so easy..


26 posted on 09/18/2012 6:36:28 AM PDT by wardaddy (this is a perfect window for Netanyahu to bomb Iran..I hereby give my go ahead..thanks Muzzie idiots)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s okay, Obammy was probably leaving meetings to pork Reggie, his love.


27 posted on 09/18/2012 11:29:25 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: dalereed
That socialist bastard with an R behind his name has got to go!!!!

I wonder whose turn it will be next?

28 posted on 09/18/2012 11:37:11 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm not voting for Obama, so therefore I must be helping Romney!)
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