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by linkup
on Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:44 am |
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Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin, The Examiner
Feb 27, 2007 1:00 AM
WASHINGTON - Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin cover people, power and politics in the beltway each weekday. Email them at yan@dcexaminer.com .
Arnold says smoking can cure Capitol Hill’s ills
According to their own governor, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, both D-Calif., are taking exactly the wrong approach to this whole smoking thing.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, speaking Monday on the topic of “post-partisanship” at the National Press Club, made multiple references to the smoking lounge he created in the courtyard of the California State Capitol, and suggested such a move could pay bipartisan dividends in Washington.
“I have a politically incorrect smoking tent,” he told the audience, a place for lawmakers to “smoke their stogies.”
“My smoking tent is always very busy, I can tell you,” he said, before adding this apparent bit of papal humor: “Sometimes there’s white smoke coming out and sometimes there’s black smoke.”
In reality, the tent, first set up in 2004, measures about 10 feet by 15 feet. According to a New York Times story at the time, it contained rattan chairs, orchids, a humidor and a mirror.
It’s been the subject of protests by anti-smoking groups, as well as the cause of a flood after its Astroturf floor blocked up a drain and inundated several first-floor offices with water.
Nevertheless, what’s the Governator’s solution for the partisanship that ails Washington? All together now: “I say, ‘Get yourself a smoking tent.’ ”
Not that such a development would sit very well with Pelosi and Waxman, who finally stamped out smoking among House members in the Speaker’s Lobby earlier this year.
With his wife, Maria, and mother-in-law, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, on the dais with him, Schwarzenegger lamented the win-at-all-costs mood in Washington, saying, “Our Founding Fathers would still be meeting at the Holiday Inn in Philadelphia had they not compromised.
“You can’t catch a socially transmitted disease” from talking to people with different views from yours.
As for his own bipartisan credentials, he said, “I don’t claim to be Gandhi or anything like that,” before adding ever so humbly, “I’m not a person that gets all introspective about my failures (and there are only a few).”
After the speech, Schwarzenegger was spotted at the Four Seasons’ Garden Terrace, holding court with a party of six. The governor, still sporting a cane from his recent skiing accident, paid the check for the group.
At least he is willing to COMPROMISE,although too little!Fuck,the antis even oppose smoking tents,they want smoking tents to be non-smoking tents, so they can come in and sit outside in a rattan chair in a totally non-smoking tent!!The antis will never be satisfied,the proof is everywhere. |
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by Tom
on Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:40 pm |
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| That was a good story. I'm surprised CA would have a smoking tent since they are the founders of smoking bans. I thought you would need to smoke 100 feet from a building there, lol. |
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by Darkseid
on Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:29 pm |
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I know full well Ah-nuld is a full-fledged RHINO, but he seems to be the ONLY well-known politico in the entire US who has the balls to tell the Nazis to fuck off. I remember they were picketing his tent for a while, then his publicist gave a press release saying that "Mr. Schwarzenegger is over 21, and as a grown adult, is free to make his own choices. Thank you." (code for "Fuck You.")  |
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by gregory
on Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:48 pm |
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