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Vote for Your Favorite Obama-Boehner World Cup Caption | Capitol Quip

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By Rebecca Gale
Posted July 9, 2014 at 5:23pm

Using the comments section below, vote for your favorite caption until 5 p.m. ET on Thursday.  

Here are this week’s finalists:

  • Sue me? I have Tim Howard as my defense attorney!
  • Congressman, you’re no Tim Howard.
  • Where were you when Brazil needed you?
  • No wonder we’ve been playing for 90 minutes without a single goal.
  • My Executive Order already counts this as a goal anyway.

The cartoon with the winning caption will appear on this blog on July 13 and in the following print edition of Roll Call. The contest winner will receive a signed color print of his or her Capitol Quip cartoon from the cartoonist, R.J. Matson.

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