| 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 |
