language at the Health Care Summit

[Benjamin Zimmer]

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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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