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House Floor Smackdown + Facebook Pics = Quintessential Wonkette Post
From Nancy Pelosi’s YouTube account (!), this video of Louis Gohmert (R-TX) getting his ass handed to him by Jack Murtha (D-PA) is funny enough. But when we put the story through our patented Wonkette-fodder filter, out came slightly salacious Facebook pictures of Gohmert’s daughter. It’s been a great week, hasn’t it? After the jump, we thank god Caroline’s here and not at Normandy or in the Pacific.
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Wonkette’s Week in Review: The Golden Week With The Blue-Gray Matte
- In defiance of the best interests of both the Democratic party and summer weekend motorists, Jack Murtha chooses Friday afternoon to declare his intention to run for majority leader, with the notion that Democrats will actually win some midterm elections and retake the House. “Jacky Drama” and “First Degree Murtha” expected to be to most popular nicknames.
- No tears, but at least one full sigh as we watched DeLay’s farewell speech. We hope someone got some free drinks at his party, and will send us pictures — of the party, not the drinks.
- All your yellow ribbon magnets and support for the troops have paid off! Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq. Death can sometimes be a beginning, as in this case when it started a civic morality discussion on how to display bloody portraits, and how not to. The President, as usual, was out in front with the ideas.
- His prosperity threatened, Arlen Specter walks calmly to his desk, retrieves his weapons, and fires a shot at Dick Cheney — with an angry letter and, um, a craigslist posting.
- First, find out what Kiplinger’s is. Second, get paid out the frame like Tom Delay and Dick Cheney. Third, use fresh lucre to rapidly consume goods and services, increasing overall life satisfaction.
- Bush got back to the gay marriage thing, but unlike other Bush initiatives, this one was over quickly.
- More than one blogger’s wet dream was realized by a New York Times article on Katherine Harris.
- Cynthia McKinney is at it again, setting a bad example any way she can.
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Murtha to Challenge Hoyer, Everyone Whom This News Affects Already Driving Up to the Shore for the Weekend
Hey everyone, breaking! Breaking! NEWS ON A FRIDAY!
Jack Murtha is quietly announcing his intention to run against Steny Hoyer for majority leader should Dems retake the House (still a big “should,” Jack). (Readers outside of Capitol Hill: This is a big deal.) He’s circulating letters of support, and basically throwing a big-ass monkey wrench in the fragile house Democrat coalition. Biggest loser: Pelosi, who’s already gotten herself in trouble every time she sounds like she’s taking either Hoyer’s or Murtha’s sides on the Iraq pullout thing.
You read it here first second or third, depending on your blog reading habits.
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