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Woe Is Me

by David Kurtz
02.25.09 | 1:05 pm

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), on how hard it is to be a Republican:

“We have a tougher job than our friends across the aisle. They’ve been offering Americans a free lunch for the last 80 years, rather successfully.”

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