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Wild Card — 2/11/09

Feb. 11, 2009 5:47 p.m. • 117 comments

In the news this evening, suicide bombers killed dozens in Iraq in the worst mass murder since Obama took office here. The $790B porkulus package will add a “whopping” $13 per week to the paychecks of American workers here. John McCain announces that he’s going to seek another term as a U.S. senator here. A Sussex spaniel became the oldest dog to win the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club show here. And the Wild Card remains on the table.

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Lynne on February 11 at 10:41 a.m.
Off topic

OTV - did you ever talk to Aggy at Teriyaki Tiki? She’s still boarded up. I heard yesterday that the city is requiring that she install a bathroom and a sidewalk. (um, where?) I’m going through Teriyaki withdrawals here…
Cabbage Boy on February 11 at 11:09 a.m.
Lynne, the wild card is all about “off topic”. :)

Guess the PETA gals realized that the nekkid protests weren’t getting anyone to look at their “cause”.
hmoffsuite on February 11 at 11:11 a.m.
Today, right now as a matter of fact, the bank CEOs are appearing before the financial services committee in congress. They are being questioned about the TARP money that had been given to them. Fair enough and they should be held accountable for the funds. BUT, this hearing is nothing more than a grandstanding effort on the part of the elected officials. They just love to hear themselves talk but in many cases, are rather ignorant and ask stupid questions. Thats all ok. My problem is that they are merely attempting to embarrass and belittle the bankers and make themselves sound wise and important. The worst offender, imo, of course, is Maxine Waters. Shameful. These congressional hearings are a pet peeve of mine. Sorry.
Bent on February 11 at 2:19 p.m.
House and Senate Democrats (along with the three Rs) struck a deal on the stimulus package this morning. Apparently they agreed to cut back the spending to below $800 billion.

According to staffers on the Hill, it’s a done deal. The bills went into confrence committee this afternoon, but conferees are simply going through the motions.

They reportedly have the votes to pass it in the House tomorrow and in the Senate on Friday… Details should start trickling out later this afternoon.

Oh, BTW, what the heck is up with all the snowy pictures on this blog today. It was nearly 70 in DC today.

My wife says I can’t come home unless I bring some nice weather with me.
Bent on February 11 at 2:21 p.m.
Hmoff, I wanted to go to that hearing in the worst way this morning. But nothing doing. I had way too many meetings of my own today. A few more meetings tomorrow and its the red-eye home, but at least I get to sleep in my own room…
JeanC on February 11 at 2:22 p.m.
I am seriously, seriously bummed. Got a heads up from my lil bro that some of his more rabid trolls figured out who I was and were on their way over to my sites. After checking my stats to see where they were coming from I set out bait and waited. The site admins of that site put the kabosh on the whole thing, had the links deleted and now I don’t get to play with the trolls.

WAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I was even going to offer to make them their very own troll t-shirts at only a couple dollar markup instead of the generic ones I posted a link to :(

Oh well, I’ve got lots to do, so probably really don’t have time to mess with troll minds and make them crazy. At least I got a nice spike in traffic for today.
hmoffsuite on February 11 at 4:08 p.m.
Bent >>> “They reportedly have the votes to pass it in the House tomorrow and in the Senate on Friday… Details should start trickling out later this afternoon”

Here’s one item. ……. Palosi’s home district got $30M for ‘wetlands development’. For a stimulus package, mind you. No earmarks, huh? Another fib ….Obama?
Sisyphus on February 11 at 4:38 p.m.
More of this please. Is this what hmoff was so upset about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wTE4e4sSXU&eurl=http://www.wonkette.com/

Picking on those poor guilty CEOs. Robbing at gunpoint or with SWAPs its all wrong. The congressman’s rant was rather cathartic.
hmoffsuite on February 11 at 4:46 p.m.
Sis. I watched the entire hearing, all day long. One other point was made. That is : Congressmen have a lower approval rating than the CEOs do. I have said repeatedly here that I think the compensation paid to CEOs is obscene in most cases. Also the compensation paid to head football coaches, school presidents, etc etc.
Bent on February 11 at 6:42 p.m.
You know what Hmoff, if you can tell me what detail is in the conference report, I just wasted a whole lot of money coming back here to find that out. In fact, I can’t get any details on the conference report yet, and I can you, I have been talking to the staffers who will be the first to know…

Can you check with you sources and ask them how much of the $159 billion in infrastructure spending is transportation related? Of that how much is transit? How much is devoted to wastewater and how much for various other public works accounts?

BTW, $159 Billion is double the amount of any infrastucture spending that has been proposed in any stimulus package to date. Woo! Hoo! to that…

If, in fact, they did give Pelosi a public works project in her district to back her down, I suspect it was legitimate need in her district, but I doubt it… there is a lot of BS floating around about this.

Let’s not forget the GOP held ALL OF THE CARDS on this, and based on what I have personally witnessed this week, they were not about to let earmarks creep in… Just my take

BTW 2, I met with staffers in the Idaho delgation today, and I have to say that Idaho is in good hands back here… We have a bunch of good people working for us.
Nick_Adams on February 11 at 7:36 p.m.
I’d like to see some proof from HMOFF on the approval ratings. Preferrably apples to apples. The only thing I could find on a quick google search was a Forbes survey on CEO performance. Not really relevant. You can’t really compare a Forbes survey with Gallup, PEW or other public surveys to something that only caters to insiders.

Also, I disagree with the idea that anything that goes to a specific district/state is an “earmark” or even pork. Otherwise, all Federal spending would have to go to Federal agencies who would dole it out. I oppose that. In a lot of cases, I’d rather have the dollars going to local folks, rather than wait for the Feds to allocate it. Not that I have a ton of confidence in our state leadership to do the right thing, but there are a number of Mayors who I trust to spend the money wisely.

Larry Craig, for example, was very successful in sending millions back to Idaho (INL, U of I, etc). I don’t have any problem with that. Same with Crapo and Simpson sending dough to BSU & Boise for geothermal expansion. Better us than the Dept. of Energy trying to figure it out.
Bent on February 11 at 8:21 p.m.
I agree Nick. If we let federal agencies, or worse yet, state agencies decide where ALL OF OUR TAXES go, we are in trouble in North Idaho and eastern Washington. Agencies don’t always keep “equitable distribution” or actual “needs” in mind when they dole that money out. Just look at how ITD treated Dover Bridge in their priority ranking of stimulus money when they thought they were fgoing to control it (which they still may, because I still haven’t seen the conference report)
thawtfulreader on February 11 at 8:27 p.m.
“Nick_Adams on February 11 at 7:36 p.m.

I’d like to see some proof from HMOFF on the approval ratings. Preferrably apples to apples.”

Near as I can tell, there are NO polls of the general public regarding CEO approval. There is, recently, a non-scientific poll of employees and their approval rating of their company’s CEO.

So, yes, of course, as usual, hmoff is comparing apples to oranges.
Bent on February 11 at 8:29 p.m.
Oh, and I also agree with you on Senators Craig, & Crapo, as well as Reps. Simpson, Otter & Kempthorne. Say what you will will about Larry Craig, but if it wasn’t for him and his staff’s incredible ability to earmark dollars for our state and work with Washington’s Democrats, we would have at least three merchant power plants out on the Rathdrum Prairie sucking up our aquifer to feed electricity into the California market…

That’s a fact.
Bent on February 11 at 8:32 p.m.
Oh, and when you are talking Geothermal energy, or the Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer, Dr. Leroy Mink (who worked closely with Craig’s office) deserves huge credit as well…
thawtfulreader on February 12 at 12:53 a.m.
Seen Google?

It figures those Godless communists at Google would be honoring the Satanic Charles Darwin on the anniversary of his birth, and not the the birthday of the great Republican patriot President Abraham Lincoln.

http://www.google.com/
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 6:11 a.m.
>> “So, yes, of course, as usual, hmoff is comparing apples to oranges.”

To set the record straight, my comparison of congressional approval and that of the CEOs was done somewhat ‘tongue in cheek’. However, the last figures I saw showed the approval of congress being at something in the high teens. Who approves of the CEOs? Customers or shareholders? If either of those held their CEOs in that low of regard, they most likely wouldn’t have the job.
Bob on February 12 at 6:24 a.m.
Well, yesterday was fun here!

But today is a new day and speaking of new, why there’s a new blog post on TUBOB this morning. TUBOB’s been writing a few 101 word fictions for fun.

Here’s one of four (4) he posted this morn:

Stingray Love

“Please Jeffrey, don’t tell him this time” a beautiful woman, with eyes like cobalt fire, implored of me as she staggered drunkenly out of the Wagon Wheel Tavern, and blinking twice from the afternoon sun managed to slink past me and into the arms of a fellow I’m guessing was Jeffrey. “You know I won’t keep this secret,” the man who was probably Jeffrey replied. She sobbed and pushed against his chest with clenched fists. Then they kissed like animals. I actually said out loud as I mounted my red Schwinn Stingray bike, “how come this never happens to me?”

http://unbearablebobness.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/three-101-word-fictions.html
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 6:57 a.m.
It seems that Obama hand picked those asking questions at his big press conference on Monday night. I thought his administration was going to be more ‘open’ and transparent. Guess that was just campaign rhetoric?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123431418276770899.html
Bob on February 12 at 7:00 a.m.
Hmoff, credibility is just a word to you, huh?

I’m never quite sure why others here engage you and Kage in actual arguments. You both make crap up constantly, then when called on it you use the “somewhat tongue in cheek” lame excuse. What is “somewhat tongue in cheek” actually mean?

That if nobody catches you on it then it wasn’t, but if folks call you on it then it was?

Seriously, you are a top fuel dragster with twin pipes spewing misinformation and disinformaton, you’re always smoking your big fat slick tires off making all kinds of noise and smoky fury but never, ever, getting any traction with the truth.

You and Kage krack me up. But even more so, how many of the more serious commenters here get sucked in all the time.

And this was all just a somewhat tongue in cheek post.
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 7:16 a.m.
Bob. Just to let you know, this one time only, I don’t read your posts anymore. If you want to engage me and my masterful thinking, you will have to do it through another poster. I will not be addressing you directly. Sorry for your loss.
thomg57 on February 12 at 7:25 a.m.
Just sayin:

“President Obama hosted a town hall meeting in Elkhart, IN — which faces the nation’s fastest-rising unemployment rate — to promote his recovery and reinvestment plan. As the Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin notes, Obama traveled to relatively unfriendly territory: Obama lost the county to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) 44 percent to 56 percent. Despite that fact, the White House did not screen its audience, who had the chance to ask the president questions:

In a dramatic contrast to former President Bush’s town-hall meetings — which were held almost exclusively in party strongholds, with tickets distributed primarily to supporters — it was first-come, first-served in Elkhart on Saturday [when tickets were distributed]. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs explained on Friday: “I’ve watched the President do town halls from 2004 through 2008, and the audience has never been hand-picked, and neither have the questions. And we’re not going to start any of that on Monday.”

What’s more, Obama invited two critics of his package along for the Air Force One ride to Indiana: Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), who both voted against the bill.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/09/obama-townhall-break-from-bush/
thomg57 on February 12 at 7:27 a.m.
my comparison of congressional approval and that of the CEOs was done somewhat ‘tongue in cheek’.

I hear that line every time you get caught making stuff up.Always after the fact.
Bob on February 12 at 7:30 a.m.
I’ll try to get over it Hmoff.

Oh wait, ThomG will you PLEASE TELL hmoff that I will try *bravely* to get over his refusal to read me or comment to me anymore.

That was totally tongue in cheek. I don’t actually like it when people type stuff to me in here because then I have to like think of something to type back almost like if we WERE REALLY TALKING.
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 7:31 a.m.
Thom. Maybe if I would have said that CEO approval was higher than lawyers, used car salesmen etc, you guys would have caught that glimmer of sarcasim. I’ll spell things out a little more clearly in the future for you rather slow thinking democrats
Bob on February 12 at 7:33 a.m.
You know Thom (and you don’t have to answer me because then I’d be like talking to you in here!) there is a well known, tried and true wingnut internet strategy of coming to internet forums like this and purposefully spreading disinformation. I’m not saying hmoff does that, but he does seem to have a proclivity for the truthiness one finds on wingnut radio, but if it looks like a duck and waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a Democratic Congressman trying to earmark SOME PORK in the PORKULUS package.

I kill me sometimes.
Bob on February 12 at 7:35 a.m.
“hmoffsuite on February 12 at 7:31 a.m.

Thom. Maybe if I would have said that CEO approval was higher than lawyers, used car salesmen etc, you guys would have caught that glimmer of sarcasim. I’ll spell things out a little more clearly in the future for you rather slow thinking democrats”

Meow. Skritch, skritch, skritch.
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 7:35 a.m.
Btw, the Obama stock market opened today and the Dow was down 216 points. Maybe it will improve throughout the day if Geithner doesn’t open his mouth.
Sisyphus on February 12 at 7:40 a.m.
An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.
thomg57 on February 12 at 7:41 a.m.
Great Idea!

‘Pallin’ Around With Sarah and Bill.’

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/12/bill-ayers-has-an-idea-for-palin-2/
thomg57 on February 12 at 7:47 a.m.
HMO, the middle school taunt aside, the truth is sarcasm doesn’t play in this type of forum unless is it over the top and obvious, or it is executed by a talented individual. your post fit neither criteria.

Your earlier assertions that you were open to dialog is belied by the fact that you have an inability to post facts, show anything to support your opinions and are constantly taking the cheap and partisan shot.
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 7:50 a.m.
Sis >>”with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.”

It seems that you might be addressing Bob with your post. He, as best as I can recall, never seems to actually discuss issues per se. More that he addresses the posters themselves and not the content of their message. Would that be a troll?
thomg57 on February 12 at 7:51 a.m.
Would that be a troll?—hmo

This would be a troll:

I’ll spell things out a little more clearly in the future for you rather slow thinking democrats.
thomg57 on February 12 at 7:52 a.m.
hmo, your party just had George W Bush a President for 8 years and you call Democrats slow thinking? You don’t get irony, do you!
Bob on February 12 at 7:58 a.m.
Hmoff, while I may be a bit off topic at times, I am LOVABLE and clever. I’m thinking Sisy was aiming that a little to the right of me.

Anyhow, you’re doing a great job ignoring me and my *scribblings*!

Just sayin’
DFO on February 12 at 8:29 a.m.
I’m off-balance on this one. HMO, you stepped across the line with your “slow-thinking” comment b/c it can be interpreted easily to be leveled at another commenter. I can take that down. But I’d have to take down several other comments in response that adequately returned fire. I’d prefer to leave all the comments up and use this as a teaching moment. Insulting another’s intelligence simply doesn’t go here. Ah. Any more. I’m open for suggestions.
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 8:38 a.m.
DFO. Fwiw, I thought my comment using the plural ‘democrats’ caused it to be a more general term. Had I said someone was a slow thinking ‘democrat’, that would have been possibly a personal attack. I meant nothing personal and was referring to democrats in general :~)
DFO on February 12 at 8:50 a.m.
HMO; I need to be careful here b/c HBO commenters are always looking for an edge or loophole to push the line (ah, just sayin’). But a generic slam against a group such as a political party tends to be allowed, although I reserve the right to take anything down. But you erred when you addressed your post to an individual here and then used “you” twice. Which includes that individual in your generic slam.
idawa on February 12 at 8:50 a.m.
I’m surprised Dave hasn’t thrown out the usual IVA red meat today, or perhaps he’s holding it for later…but on this, Darwin’s b-day, the IVA is pushing something called an Academic Freedom day - a day where student everywhere should fight for their schools to include a non-testable theory, like creation, is science class! Why science class - because all the cool kids rarely take theology. That’s right, students don’t believe in creationism any more because “the secular man” is preventing debate - it couldn’t actually be that you are trying to compare a provable theory with a non provable one, but I digress…

see more here: http://www.idahovaluesalliance.com/news.asp?id=1012
DFO on February 12 at 8:52 a.m.
>Well, yesterday was fun here! But today is a new day — Bob.<

Agreed. That’s the magic of this place. If you can survive until midnight at Huckleberries Online, a new day brings a clean sheet.
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 9:07 a.m.
I’m really having a tough time trying to figure out why the financial markets have gone down so much since Obama was elected. I know that Bush left with the economy in bad shape but normally, the markets perform in anticipation of what the economy will be in the future. It seems there is little confidence in Obama’s ability to correct the situation? Or, is it that the stimulus package may not work as written? Does it lack any stimulus features and just contain pork spending to reward those who put Obama in office? I had hoped the markets would have rallied when Obama got his hands on the steering wheel. If a good portion of the stimulus package isn’t even going to be used in 2009, how can things turn around in a timely fashion? There are just so many questions ….
Cindy_H on February 12 at 9:07 a.m.
“If you can survive until midnight at Huckleberries Online, a new day brings a clean sheet.”

Oh golly, I hope you’re not mixing metaphors, DFO. Clean slate works well, but clean sheet brings to mind soiled bed linens.
Oh. Nevermind :-)
Joker on February 12 at 9:29 a.m.
Good morning,

Back in town after a quick business trip, it looks like I missed out on some fun yesterday. I wouldn’t want certain individuals on here to “believe” that they had run me off.

Wow, some of you are soooo sensitive to a few little nips on the ankle.

Old Bob posted three new works of fiction, plus a bonus. I read them, and it was like enduring four hours of mental root canal in 10 minutes. OUCHIE. I don’t get the strange adjectives. What is protoplasmic fear?

Then he describes former police detective with a number of cliches mixed with hipster language, ie. “a liver so bitch slapped by cheap vodka it looked like a bag of yellow fat.”

The bonus piece is a “StingRay love.” Reads like something you hear on a bad “Lifetime For Women” movie at 3 a.m. starring Billy Ray Cyrus and Alyssa Milano.

If he’s trying to corner the market on bloated stinky, so bad it’s funny writing, the man is a genius.
thomg57 on February 12 at 9:35 a.m.
Joker, other than humping everything Bob writes, what’s your point.?
thomg57 on February 12 at 9:41 a.m.
“‘I’m really having a tough time trying to figure out why the financial markets have gone down so much since Obama was elected. ”—hmo

Is your tongue in your cheek on this one? ROTFLMAO!

This country’s economy raced headlong over the cliff with Crazy Uncle Dick and Slow Thinking George asleep at the wheel and 23 days into the Obama Presidency poor hmo doesn’t understand why the bus is still headed to the rocks below. I love it!

Hang on HMO it’s gonna be a wild and crazy roller coaster for you these next 8 years!!!
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 9:47 a.m.
>>> “Hang on HMO it’s gonna be a wild and crazy roller coaster for you these next 8 years!!!”

thom. I couldn’t agree more. Not what was promised by Obama but I’m afraid it will be what we get. The coaster will likely go down the first 4 years and up the next 4 when errors in voter judgement are corrected.
thomg57 on February 12 at 9:55 a.m.
HMO, just for you:

The DJIA on Obama Inauguration Day January 20, 2009 was 7,949.09. Yesterday, after the 22nd day of the Obama Presidency it closed at 7,844.75, a drop of 104.24 points, a drop of 1.3%.

Now, let’s look at the DJIA for the last year of the Bush Presidency (I know it’s not a valid apples-to-apples comparison, but you never use those anyway, so what the heck):

The DJIA on January 01, 2008 closed at 13,043.96. On January 16, 2009, the last day of the Bush Presidency that the market was open, it closed at 8,281.22, a drop of 4,762.74 points, or 36.5%.

Now, what were those questions you had?
Joker on February 12 at 9:55 a.m.
I would never hump anything associated with Ole Bob. I am straight. Just having fun with a guy who likes to poke and prod everybody else.

We could talk about Mr. Obama and his promises of change. Yeah, putting all the old Clinton people in place is change. I am still waiting for all the “New ideas.”
So far, Mr. Obama has delivered on a new concept for Dems, “Failing to pay taxes.” And here I thought the Reps were the only ones crooked and corrupt.
thomg57 on February 12 at 10:01 a.m.
Joker, you do nothing but hump. That and spew the talk radio talking points that appeal to the Ron Paul crowd. If you’re having fun, I believe you may be the only one.
Joker on February 12 at 10:11 a.m.
Thom Thom Thom,

I don’t listen to talk radio. Waste of time. I am not a Ron Paul follower. You can’t put me into a nice little category, but keep on trying. It will be FUN ;)
Cabbage Boy on February 12 at 10:25 a.m.
Joker,
that is a typical concept for the left. When they stumble in their arguments, they resort to sticking everyone in a neat little box with a “scary” label on it.

But forgive them, people that actually have a thought process confuse them.
thawtfulreader on February 12 at 10:26 a.m.
Regardless of the composition and implementation of the stimulus plan, many astute market analysts predict the DJI average is likely to bottom out at around 5,000, in the next couple of years. If the market’s your game, plan accordingly.
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 11:25 a.m.
thom >>”The DJIA on Obama Inauguration Day January 20, 2009 was 7,949.09. Yesterday, after the 22nd day of the Obama Presidency it closed at 7,844.75, a drop of 104.24 points, a drop of 1.3%”

By the time Obama was inaugurated, a lot of the damage had already occurred. Check the dow from the time Obama was ELECTED. Straight down hill. If any of you guys hold 401k’s, or other similiar instruments, I’d keep a close eye on them. This Obama downdraft of financial markets will get worse. We haven’t even thought about the fact that the automakers come back to the table next week for round two. That could be troublesome to the markets, imo.
toadman on February 12 at 11:33 a.m.
“We haven’t even thought about the fact that the automakers come back to the table next week for round two.”

Hey man, at least maybe I’ll be able to buy a mini-van for a song this year..

Literally.. I’m actually rehearsing my number already. It’s a thirty minute Prog Rock Epic that should get me at least a 100k mile warranty and free undercoating.

;-)
Sisyphus on February 12 at 11:40 a.m.
I don’t know why that Animal House line keeps going through my head “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_crisis_of_2008
hmoffsuite on February 12 at 11:52 a.m.
Oh, gosh. Another misleading chart. Rather disingenuous of you Sis. Another instance of not telling the entire story. Take a look at the chart from Nov thru current. That is more to the point of the discussion here.
thomg57 on February 12 at 1:38 p.m.
>Check the dow from the time Obama was ELECTED.—hmo

You are unbelievable. So should that be from the day the polls closed, or would you prefer the day the Electoral College voted?

Seriously hmo, your game of moving the target is old, I’m done doing your research for you.
thawtfulreader on February 12 at 2:37 p.m.
“hmoffsuite on February 12 at 6:57 a.m.

It seems that Obama hand picked those asking questions at his big press conference on Monday night. I thought his administration was going to be more ‘open’ and transparent. Guess that was just campaign rhetoric?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12343…”

Sigh. Yes, I miss the good old days when President Bush would choose a softball throwing “reporter” named James Guckert. Except then they found out Guckert was actually a male prostitute named Jeff Gannon.

“James Dale Guckert (born 1957) posed as a conservative columnist who worked under the pseudonym Jeff Gannon as a White House reporter between 2003 and 2005, representing the fake news organization Talon News. Gannon first gained national attention during a presidential press conference on January 26, 2005, when he asked United States President George W. Bush a question that some in the press corps considered “so friendly it might have been planted.”[1] “
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gannon

Gannon spent dozens of overnights in the White House.

Yep, the good old days, of “I’m not gay” gay “reporter” getting special treatment from Bush. And/or giving, who knows?
Arch_Druid on February 12 at 2:49 p.m.
If he “handpicked” the questioners, then I wonder how it was he managed to get a critic into that one townhall meeting?

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