language at the Health Care Summit

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:51 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Eric Cantor, a few seconds ago: We have a bridge to gap
>
> I am wondering what it's going to look like in the transcript.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022503128.html
"We, again, have a very difficult bridge to gap here, because I know
that this is something that we don't want to look at."

Confirmed by audio here:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/292260-1

But Cantor later tweeted:

http://twitter.com/GOPWhip/status/9638256321
"We have a very difficult gap to bridge here. We just can't afford
this. That's the ultimate problem."


--Ben Zimmer

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