1x01 Pilot
Professor Duncan: I’m asking you if you know the difference between right and wrong.
Jeff Winger: I discovered at a very early age that if I talked long enough I could make anything right or wrong. So either I’m god, or truth is relative. And either case booyah.3x22 Introduction to Finality
Jeff Winger: I mean, guys like me, we’ll tell you there’s no right or wrong—there’s no real truths. And as long as we all believe that, guys like me can never lose. Because the truth is, I’m lying when I say there is no truth. The truth is—the pathetically, stupidly, inconveniently, obvious truth is, helping only ourselves is bad and helping each other is good.
1x01 Pilot
Professor Duncan: The average person has a much harder time saying ’booyah’ to moral relativism.
3x22 Introduction to Finality
Pierce Hawthorne: Booyah, good person!
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Feeling comfortable after working “three grueling months” as White House interns, a few members of the Spring 2012 White House intern class held a ceremony in the West Wing earlier this week. The hallway running outside the Roosevelt Room was un-officially named the “Sorkin Meeting Room” in an informal ceremony attended by some senior White House officials who made comments such as “excuse me” and “get out of my way.”
Jay Hamilton, a junior studying “Political Government or something” at Georgetown and self-elected President of the intern class, said the dedication was intended to honor the hallowed grounds walked by such great historical figures as “Jed Bartlett and Leo McGarry.”
“Some of the greatest and most influential figures of American history walked these halls and life-changing decisions were made in these rooms,” said recent Yale graduate Lisa Campbell. “Right over there, negotiators worked up to the last minute on the debt ceiling. And remember when CJ did ‘The Jackal’?”
“Oh, did Jay mention me earlier? He’s kind of the Josh to my Donna,” Campbell added.
There was no official comment from the White House on the matter. When the Sorkin Meeting Room was brought up in a press conference earlierthis week, Press Secretary Jay Carney said “oh yeah, that,” before changing the subject. In an unrelated incident, he was later seen in a Foggy Bottom coffee shop slapping a twenty-something across the face.
Newt Gingrich’s Presidential campaign shocked the political world this week, announcing it had raised a startling $4.5 million in campaign debt in a conference call with reporters.
“This campaign has been running at full-speed over the past few months,” said the former House Speaker. “This debt is just another sign of the great team we’ve put together and the momentum we have as we head toward the convention in Tampa.”
The announcement is set to infuse a new burst of energy into the flagging campaign that faces near-insurmountable odds against former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
“Putting together this amount of debt is exactly what this campaign needs to get up and running again,” said Gingrich campaign manager Vince Haley. “By ramping up our spending, putting staffers back to work, we can revive our poll numbers and get this campaign back in the black. This kick-start is putting us on a straight shot to the nomination.”
Some of the campaign’s critics argue that Gingrich’s “spend now” philosophy is unsustainable. “His debt is growing larger and larger every day,” one GOP strategist said off the record. “The path to real political growth is to make massive cuts across the board. Stop making campaign trips, cancel your fundraisers. Fire some staff, that’ll bring in donors!”
Gingrich is set to face another hurdle in the next month, as his campaign heads toward its own debt ceiling. Advisors are gathering next week to begin negotiations on raising the debt ceiling.
Cannon House Office Building has been home to one less tenant for the past few months, as Congressman Ron Paul has been in a full sprint for the GOP Presidential nomination. But with the nomination statistically out of reach, the Texas representative has been taking steps to suspend his campaign and return to his Congressional office in Washington.
Rumors are swirling that the campaign has hit yet another major speed bump in the past few weeks, with Paul unable to locate the key that would reopen his D.C. office and allow his staff to get back to work opposing legislative proposals from both parties. “The Congressman is ready to get back to work. There are plenty of bills that need a loyal ‘No’ vote every day,” said a legislative staffer, working out of the Starbucks on Capitol Hill since late last year. “Without us, these bills are moving faster and faster every day.”
Des Moines Register political reporter Jennifer Jacobs wrote Wednesday that Paul had returned to the Hawkeye State, rumored to be digging through couch cushions of supporters that had hosted him in the lead-up to the Iowa Caucuses in early January. Paul’s Oldsmobile has sat unmoved in the parking lot of the West Des Moines Holiday Inn for the past few months.
Jesse Benton, Paul’s campaign manager, couldn’t be reached for comment, but inside sources are speculating that he left his Blackberry charger in the DC office.
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