BLT:
Thought the Thanksgiving holiday was blissfully free of lobbying campaigns?
Think again. As today's Washington Post points out, Virginia has lobbied for years to have its claim as the site of the first Thanksgiving recognized. And yesterday, President George W. Bush threw the state a bone by heading out to the Berkeley Plantation on the James River and, well, sticking it to the good people of Plymouth, who incidentally work very hard to provide cranberries for your sauce.
"The good folks here say that the founders of Berkeley held their celebration before the Pilgrims had even left port," Bush said. "As you can imagine, this version of events is not very popular up north."
The Virginia campaign wasn't entirely successful, though: The president so far has declined to pardon a pig, announcing that he'll stick with the more traditional turkey pardon. Hey, anyone want to e-mail us with details on that lobbying campaign? Is there a turkey that's gone out and hired one of the big K Street firms? We're listening!
1 comment:
To bad Cheney isn't going tukey shooting with luck he will shot the Gerbil tukey and then Cheney can go out on sick leave. Oh how my mine wonders to bad our troops will have to suffer seeing the idiot again. At lease they all know he's the LIAR-IN-CHIEF with his cowardly VP.
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