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By: Jeff Dufour
Editor at Large/Columnist, "Yeas & Nays"
09/29/08 12:05 AM EDT

"[Steny Hoyer is] not the kind of guy you want to drink a beer with. He's more the kind of guy who oversees the licensing of those who would serve you beer."
--Larry Smith, who engaged in short-lived run for Congress this year, writing about his meeting with the House Majority Leader in the latest issue of GQ

-"Your pool held for about an hour aside the Rose Garden, where Miss Beasley, the family terrier, provided a diversion by demonstrating her dexterity with what appeared to be beef rib, gnawing it to the last morsel."
 - A pool report from the White House on Friday
 
-"They're treating President Bush like a bald-headed stepchild."
-Spike Lee, telling Bloomberg TV last week what he thought about the Republican reaction to President Bush at the Republican National Convention



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