Ins & Outs

By Administrator - 12/20/07 02:12 PM ET

IN	OUT
Breastfeeding in between votes	Smoking in the Speaker's Lobby between votes
2008 disputes between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)	2007 disputes between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
David Axelrod, strategist to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)	Mark Penn, strategist to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)
Mike Rogers, the D.C. blogger who outed nearly three dozen senior staffers and lawmakers	The D.C. Madam
Jokes about naughty pages in elevators	Jokes about a “wide-stance” senator in an airport bathroom
Fuchsia power suits	Cowboy boots
Oprah	Barbara Streisand
The toothpick rule: Lawmakers now eat hamburgers on toothpicks	The pizza rule: Lobbyists can no longer provide late-night pizza to lawmakers
Illegal immigrants	Illegal immigrants
?	President George W. Bush
Former GOP Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee	Charles Darwin
Al Gore	Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-Okla.) belief that global warming is a hoax
GOP presidential hopeful Alan Keyes	GOP presidential hopeful Alan Keyes
Motions to adjourn	Five-day workweeks
Jeanne Shaheen, running for Senate against Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.)	Billy Shaheen, a co-chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign who brought up Barack Obama’s drug use
Arianna Huffington	Ann Coulter
Sushi bar and carving station in the Rayburn House Office Building cafeteria	Sticky cafeteria floors, wilted lettuce
California delegation party	House Majority Leader John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) Warehouse Party
Rep. John Murtha’s (D-Pa.) earmarks	Out Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s earmarks
Nancy Pelosi’s expensive flowers	Nancy’s Pelosi’s Middle East veil
Ryan White’s mom, who recently wrote Huckabee on his stance to quarantine AIDS patients	Cindy Sheehan
Entertaining presidential debates	Carolyn Washburn, editor of The Des Moines Register, who moderated two presidential debates.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) Tahitian pearls	Former Speaker Dennis Hastert’s (R-Ill.) wrestling onesie