language at the Health Care Summit

[Victor Steinbok]

Well, THAT happened.

I did assume that he made a simple switch, but it was too good to ignore.

     VS-)

On 2/26/2010 2:44 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> 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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