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Boehner’s Baseball Pep Talk, To What Avail?

By Jason Dick
Posted June 13, 2013 at 9:32pm

Speaker John A. Boehner gave a little pep talk to his GOP baseball cohorts tonight.

Boehner, right, looked to buck up the GOP troops. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.)
Boehner, right, looked to buck up the GOP troops. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.)

As of the top of the 6th inning, with the Democrats up 20-0, the troops were yet to take it to heart.

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