that there is a leave room for the pope rule when it comes to this visit and this speech. congressional leaders are so worried about their members inability to control themselves each party has designated human buffers. members of congress who agree to sit in those prime seats along the aisle and not only not touch the pope themselves, they agree that they will physically block any of their fellow members of congress who try to get to the pope. this group of members of congress will be instructed to show up when the doors open and to fill the first three seats on either side of the aisle. three seats on both sides. that s how worried leadership is about their members desperately trying to touch or get a photo op with the pope. and those congressional bouncers are not just going to have the eliot engel aisle hogs to contend with, there s pope francis. for lack of a better term, he s a touchy pope. not touchy as in testy, he hug, he holds hands. he does not shy from human contact. betwe
the person who will be addressing congress is pope francis. actually informed his address to congress is going to resemble a state of the union. appropriate francis is going to enter down the same aisle as the president. it s going to look exactly the same except for all the touching. turns out that leaders from both parties are now being instructed that there is a leave room for the pope rule when it comes to this visit and this speech. congressional leaders are so worried about their members inability to control themselves each party has designated human buffers. members of congress who agree to sit in those prime seats along the aisle and not only not touch the pope themselves, they agree that they will physically block any of their fellow members of congress who try to get to the pope. this group of members of congress will be instructed to show up when the doors open and to fill the first three seats on either side of the aisle. three seats on both sides.
clinton at state of the union. snagging a prime seat is a sport and congressman eliot engel is tom brady. the person who will be addressing congress is pope francis. actually informed his address to congress is going to resemble a state of the union. appropriate francis is going to enter down the same aisle as the president. it s going to look exactly the same except for all the touching. turns out that leaders from both parties are now being instructed that there is a leave room for the pope rule when it comes to this visit and this speech. congressional leaders are so worried about their members inability to control themselves each party has designated human buffers. members of congress who agree to sit in those prime seats along the aisle and not only not touch the pope themselves, they agree that they will physically block any of their fellow members of congress who try to get to the
socialized medicine is expensive. the president has no problem raiding the defense budget to finance them. but for the people who say the pentagon is larded up with fat and needs to be trimmed, what do you say? no. i say that is not why we have these deficits that we have today. defense spending is at a pre-world war ii levels in terms of a percentage of gdp. the money is where george said it is. it s entitlement spending. that is where the cutting should be. george? the pentagon does have an enormous amount of civilian fat that it can cut. there s an enormous growth just as there s a growth in the administration rather than the faculty of universities the growth in the civilian side of the pentagon does leave room for lots of cuts. with that said china, the second on the list it s expensive to have navies. aircraft carriers and their groups are tremendously expensive. this comes at a time when china is creating islands, building landing strips on them one
are expensive. socialized medicine is expensive. the president has no problem raiding the defense budget to finance them. but for the people who say the pentagon is larded up with fat and needs to be trimmed, what do you say? no. i say that is not why we have these deficits that we have today. defense spending is at a pre-world war ii levels in terms of a percentage of gdp. the money is where george said it is. it s entitlement spending. that is where the cutting should be. george? the pentagon does have an enormous amount of civilian fat that it can cut. there s an enormous growth just as there s a growth in the administration rather than the faculty of universities the growth in the civilian side of the pentagon does leave room for lots of cuts. with that said china, the second on the list it s expensive to have navies. aircraft carriers and their groups are tremendously expensive. this comes at a time when china is creating islands, building landing strips on them one