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Wednesday, November 02, 2005
 
Rule XXI
On a motion made and seconded to close the doors of the Senate, on the discussion of any business which may, in the opinion of a Senator, require secrecy, the Presiding Officer shall direct the galleries to be cleared; and during the discussion of such motion the doors shall remain closed.


Lulu gets slapped

We have often thought of Bill Frist as a modern day US Senate version of Elmer Gantry, an opportunistic midwestern huckster turned hypocritical tent-revival evangelist with none of Burt Lancaster�s redeeming qualities.
Yesterday, with tears welling in his rheumy eyes, the rules-challenged Senate Majority Leader took a turn before the cameras as Gantry�s old heavily slapped girlfriend turned prostitute Lulu Baines.
Apparently hoping to surpass Shirley Jones� Oscar-winning 1960 performance, Lulu Frist sobbed, sputtered and succeeded, only, in making himself look more foolish than he appeared following Harry Reid�s brilliantly successful parliamentary use of Senate Rule XXI to refocus national attention on the Libby indictments and the �cooked� intelligence that precipitated Bush�s supposed pre-emptive war.
According to the Washington Post:

"Republicans are outraged," Sen. Christopher Bond, a Republican from Missouri, reported. "I just ate lunch, and it's upset my stomach."

As Lulu, Dr. Frist should have reprised another lunch-souring line of Gantry-esque movie dialogue to describe Senator Reid�s humiliating success, �He sure rammed the fear of God up me!�

Photos: ShirleyJones.com, Reuters
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Sunday, October 30, 2005
 
Setting the Wayback machine to July 8, 2003:


We state our belief in patty-cake:

Yellowcake, yellowcake
Cheney�s plan
Fakes the bake like fast, man.
Poll it
And spin it
And fund raise it, too
An state it in the Union
As a UK clue.

Image: Reuters, Buy.com
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