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Inside the Beltway

By John McCaslin (Contact) | Tuesday, August 19, 2008

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POST-IT PRICE

Like presidents before him who even signed flesh, George W. Bush has grown accustomed to autographing anything ink will adhere to — now including "Post-its" handed to him by unprepared CIA employees after the president's impromptu lunchtime remarks in the agency's cafeteria in recent days.

Don't laugh. Hollywood Collectibles, as we speak, is peddling a 3x5 index card signed by former President George Bush for $175.

BOYDA'S HOLIDAY

Controversy surrounding the August congressional recess is hanging tough like the heat.

Now it's Rep. Nancy Boyda, Kansas Democrat, coming under fire from the National Republican Congressional Committee, which says after "casting the deciding vote to give Congress a monthlong vacation, Boyda is now disingenuously claiming she had nothing to do with it."

"Nancy Boyda is desperately hiding from the fact that she cast the deciding vote to send Congress on a monthlong vacation instead of addressing critical energy legislation to lower the cost of gasoline," says NRCC spokesman Ken Spain.

The final vote tally to vacate Washington was a razor-thin 213-212.

So, says Mr. Spain, while Congress is taking its vacation against the wishes of Republicans, "families all across the country have had to cancel their vacations because of the high gas prices."

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