[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20771]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       IN NOVEMBER, AMERICANS HAVE A CHANCE TO TRADE GEORGE BUSH

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, it may surprise many of my colleagues to 
hear this, but I am now convinced George Bush should remain in 
Washington. Now that D.C. has a baseball team, there is finally a job 
in this town which George Bush is qualified for and the work is not 
that hard or tough.
  He may not know how many troops we need in Iraq, but even he knows 
that you need nine baseball players on the field; and in baseball, you 
do not declare mission accomplished until the game's last out.
  I am surprised the White House has not boasted about the Expos' move 
from Montreal. After all, they are finally creating some jobs here in 
America.
  Of course, the President would have some explaining to do to his new 
team. He will have to break it to them that they have just moved from a 
nation with universal health care to a Nation where 45 million people 
lack coverage. Welcome to the ownership society.
  He will also need to warn them that it is not just chin-high fast 
balls that they need to watch out for in Washington, since the 
Republican Congress and the NRA just erased the city's gun laws.
  When head of the Texas Rangers, George Bush traded Sammy Sosa. In 
November Americans have a chance to trade George Bush.

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