Wonderful Copenhagen
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
President Obama is flying off to Denmark to lobby for Chicago’s Olympic bid.
Or, in the words of the House minority leader, John Boehner, he is “going to go off to Copenhagen when we’ve got serious issues here at home that need to be debated.”
This is the sort of thing an opposition party is supposed to say because it sounds virtuous even if it makes no sense whatsoever. It’s like complaining that the health care bill that Congress has been working on since 1964 is being rammed through without enough study.
Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri has been trotting around the cable TV circuit, complaining that the president needs to spend those precious Copenhagen hours consulting with the military about Afghanistan and working “to keep our country safe.” Bond is the logical point man on these matters because he is the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. And I do not want to hear any jokes.
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NYT
President Obama is flying off to Denmark to lobby for Chicago’s Olympic bid.
Or, in the words of the House minority leader, John Boehner, he is “going to go off to Copenhagen when we’ve got serious issues here at home that need to be debated.”
This is the sort of thing an opposition party is supposed to say because it sounds virtuous even if it makes no sense whatsoever. It’s like complaining that the health care bill that Congress has been working on since 1964 is being rammed through without enough study.
Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri has been trotting around the cable TV circuit, complaining that the president needs to spend those precious Copenhagen hours consulting with the military about Afghanistan and working “to keep our country safe.” Bond is the logical point man on these matters because he is the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. And I do not want to hear any jokes.
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