Yeas & Nays asked some of Washington’s top leaders what they got Dear Old Dad this weekend.
Since her father is recovering from minor surgery Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., pledged to give her dad a year supply of ice cream. Now that’s a sweet deal.
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Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., bought her father a pair of flip-flops and shorts for the hot California weather.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz, D-Fla., purchased a handball T-shirt for her father because he loves playing four-wall handball.
Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla., bought his father, former Sen. David Boren, several framed pictures of his granddaughter.
Speaking of famous fathers, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., said he spent some extra time with his dad, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and threw in a little dinner to boot.
But Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” was keen to remind her dad, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, that the family’s power now resides in the Fourth Estate. “I gave him a ‘Morning Joe’ mug,” she said.
