Finally: something I agree with Nancy Pelosi on:

"Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) yesterday banned smoking in the Speaker’s Lobby.

The ornately decorated vestibule off of the House floor had been one of the few remaining refuges on Capitol Hill for the dwindling band of smokers.

“The days of smoke-filled rooms in the United States Capitol are over,” Pelosi said in written statement Wednesday. “I am a firm believer that Congress should lead by example. Effective immediately, smoking will no longer be permitted in the Speaker’s Lobby.”

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/expor...1107/cigs.html

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"If the President simply adds a couple of Republican solutions to a trillion dollar health care package that the American people don't support, it isn't bi-partisan. It's political cover," Rep Eric Cantor (R-Va.)

Now that wasn't so hard was it?

What's next? Posies in all the nooks and crannies?

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I had no idea that the speaker could make rules like that without any kind of vote or anything.

In the olden days, there would be a room somewhere (for men only of course) which would be designated "the smoking room".

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The way we get into these scrapes and get out of them, it's almost as though someone was dreaming up these situations; guiding our destiny. ~The Boy Wonder, alter ego of Dick Grayson, young ward of millionaire Bruce Wayne.

Your thread title caugh me off guard.

Good one, JP !

What next tofu hot dogs, tofurkie, and all "natural" articially flavored tofu shakes in the Congressional cafeteria ???

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"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. "- Thomas Paine

Nancy Pelosi should be thrown out of office for this insult. She herself chews tobacco. IN fact, it's rumored that all politics aside, she and the President are quite flirty face. To be sure, i've heard many-a-time that the two have spitting contests in the Oval Office.... just not the kind you'd get during the clinton administration...

Pelosi + Redman= a Speaker I can appreciate.

I bet it's not the same spitting contest Monica was doing in the Oral orifice I mean the Oval office.

That's why she's earning the name....Nazi Pelosi.

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"If the President simply adds a couple of Republican solutions to a trillion dollar health care package that the American people don't support, it isn't bi-partisan. It's political cover," Rep Eric Cantor (R-Va.)

I thought you agreed with her?

The Nazi Pelosi label serves only to discredit the labelers, per Godwin's Law.

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