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We know that the rate at which Wonkette readers share needles is higher than it should be, so we’re happy to report that Congress has lifted the DC needle exchange ban. Yes, the dark ages have gone, and now the District’s intravenous drug users can get clean needles for free instead of swapping their mortally filthy old ones. Democrats slipped the provision into the budget that President Bush signed into law yesterday, reversing the
GOP’s nine-year social experiment to see if they could stop the spread of
HIV/AIDS solely through pandering to fundamentalist Christians.
DC, of course, now has the highest rate of infection in the country. But we can only imagine what Pelosi told Bush to trick him into signing this thing… “Just think Mr. President, you’ll be able to play all those Jethro Tull records again!” [
New York Times]
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WHAT IS WITH SOME PEOPLE: 
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) — the world's most comical political organization, behind House Republicans — has been hoping to convert Barack Obama's non-denunciation of controversial black people into a couple of victories in upcoming House special elections. We saw that piece of crap airing in Mississippi yesterday, about which Travis Childers said nothing. Now they have another ad supporting some GOP dude running in Louisiana, whose opponent supports the "extreme liberal views" of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, depicted below with a lesbian haircut.
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