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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBorowitz Report again refuses to do satire
Boehner: I Dont Want to Live in a World Where Seven Million People Get Affordable Health CarePosted by Andy Borowitz
A riveting scene unfolded in Congress today as a tearful Speaker John Boehner took to the floor of the House to tell his colleagues, I dont want to live in a world where seven million people get affordable health care.
Tears streaming down his cheeks, Rep. Boehner appeared unable to maintain his composure as he delivered a speech interrupted by blubbering and sharp intakes of breath.
What kind of a world is it where anyone can go on the Internet and get health care they can afford? he said. Not a world Id care to live in, or leave to my children.
Its not right and its not America, he said, breaking down.
Later, dabbing his eyes, a still-sobbing Boehner apologized to reporters for losing it up there.
I dont like to get so emotional, he said. But when seven million people signed up for Obamacare, a part of me died.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/04/boehner-i-dont-want-to-live-in-a-world-where-seven-million-people-get-affordable-health-care.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(57)
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Borowitz Report again refuses to do satire (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Apr 2014
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Gothmog
(145,321 posts)1. I love good satire
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)2. k&r thanks for posting. nm
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)3. Borowitz...where satire meets reality...
and never the twain shall part.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)4. Borowitz does it again!