It was a mighty glum Mortimer Groenteboer of the American Fruit and Vegetable Council who came to visit my office on the afternoon of Friday March 30. “He looks,” Gretchen opined in an instant message shortly before showing him in, “like he was weaned on a pickle.” And so he did. A more unhappy Washington lobbyist I have yet to see. “Why broccoli,” he sighed as he threw himself down on the couch by the picture window, “of all things, why broccoli?” “It probably got started,” I hypothesized, “when George W. Bush said, ‘I do not like broccoli, and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And now that I’m [...]
Scalia Says Obamacare Tastes Like Broccoli
It was a mighty glum Mortimer Groenteboer of the American Fruit and Vegetable Council who came to visit my office on the afternoon of Friday March 30. “He looks,” Gretchen opined in an instant message shortly before showing him in, “like he was weaned on a pickle.” And so he did. A more unhappy Washington lobbyist I have yet to see. “Why broccoli,” he sighed as he threw himself down on the couch by the picture window, “of all things, why broccoli?” “It probably got started,” I hypothesized, “when George W. Bush said, ‘I do not like broccoli, and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And now that I’m [...]