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Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Here's some political trivia for you
CQ Today's Midday Update (free email service) offers up this tidbit:
This evokes the classic Saturday Night Live skit in which a number of politicians vie not to be the Democratic nominee in 1992 (so as not to get slaughtered by George H.W. Bush). Dana Carvey, playing Dick Gephardt, has this to say as a reason why he shouldn't be the nominee:
Rep. David Vitter, R-La., said he was unhappy with the questionable reputation of Louisiana politics, and he decided to try to do something about it. In 1991 he won the state House seat vacated by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who ran for governor.Link.
This evokes the classic Saturday Night Live skit in which a number of politicians vie not to be the Democratic nominee in 1992 (so as not to get slaughtered by George H.W. Bush). Dana Carvey, playing Dick Gephardt, has this to say as a reason why he shouldn't be the nominee:
Fans: Gephardt! Gephardt! Gephardt!One of my favorite SNL skits of all time.
Carvey: Well hold on. Now if you want to talk about shambles, let's talk about the US House of Representatives, of which I am the Majority Leader. The real enemy facing this country isn't the Soviets, it isn't the Japanese, it's people like me. The American people know it.
The fact is, I couldn't beat David Duke in Harlem.
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