Caption the wilted Boehner

[BurtWorm]

"I lost my tan..."

[Swamp Rat]

1. Aw! Why the long face?

:D

[FSogol]

2. I'm going to take my ball and go home.

[RZM]

3. 'This is the last time I fall apart in public . . . honest guys.' n/t

[zbdent]

4. "Waiting for the orders from Fox to download ...

damn this 300 baud modem ..."

[pacalo]

5. "I don't have time for this...I need to mow the friggin' lawn for my daily skin care regimen."

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. 'Everyone else got strawberries...'

With apologies to Bogie, of course.

[EC]

7. I told Ma not to make me wash my face... n/t

[BurtWorm]

8. 'Obama crashed our retreat last year and made asses out of us.'

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45257.html



The roots of the partisan standoff that led to the postponement of the bipartisan White House summit scheduled for Thursday date back to January, when President Barack Obama crashed a GOP meeting in Baltimore to deliver a humiliating rebuke of House Republicans.

Obama's last-minute decision to address the House GOP retreat - and the one-sided televised presidential lecture many Republicans decried as a political ambush - has left a lingering distrust of Obama invitations and a wariness about accommodating every scheduling request emanating from the West Wing, aides tell POLITICO.

"He has a ways to go to rebuild the trust," said a top Republican Hill staffer. "The Baltimore thing was unbelievable. There were <House Republicans> who only knew Obama was coming when they saw Secret Service guys scouting out the place."



http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Talking-Points-Memo/~3/3dIsHmUq-oc/thats_the_story_galacticfail_edition.php

So was it an ambush? Well, My God, not even close. Here's the press release from Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, thanking the president on January 13th for "accept our invitation to meet with the Republican Conference later this month." And here's the Politico's write up from January 12th, the day before. In other words, that's more than two weeks before these House Republicans who must have spent the month in a sensory deprivation chamber were stunned to see the president's motorcade driving up unannounced to crash their party. And if they'd forgotten here's the write-up from The Hill the day before the event ...

Emboldened by an unexpected victory in Massachusetts and frustrated with a "partisan" State of the Union address, House Republicans are eager to meet with President Barack Obama on Friday.

So here they are all gunned up and eagerly awaiting President Obama's ambush of them that they didn't know anything about.