old fashioned budget battles

so, at these late night White House session, Reid offered a good old fashioned manly way to settle the issues: a round of poker, Texas hold'em...

Reid dealt.
Boehner drew 3-7 off-suit, and went all in.
Obama had ace-king suited.
He folded.

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...that Lieberman and Snowe were not acting in good faith on healthcare. First, TPM on Republican Senator Olympia Snowe:
I admit it is hard to imagine a National Center for Science Education without Genie Scott; the NCSE was Genie, and Genie was the NCSE.
For H.A. Reid, the secretary of the State Academy of Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa, evolution and Creation fit perfectly together.
Let me add my voice to that of Sandefur, Unlearned Hand,

That's the single best summary of the current US political situation that I've seen. We have real donkeys running the country.

the AKs is only about 68% to win against 37o. Heck, AA is only 86 percent. Interestingly, JTs has a 70% chance against the 37o. Having an open ended straight helps.