Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) baffled colleagues and foes Friday night by reacting to the passage of a controversial climate-change bill with a cryptic note.
When asked by a reporter about the bill's narrow passing (219 votes for, 212 votes against), the normally outspoken congressman held up his hand, extracted a pad and pencil from his breast pocket, and began to write.
Thirty seconds later, he had finished, handed the note to the reporter, and left the chambers. His message? "This bill is a pile of s - - t."
"We have no idea what he meant," said House Speaker Nancy "Ma'am" Pelosi (D-Calif.), "but I'm pretty sure it starts with an s and ends with a t."
"And there appear to be two letters in between," said Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). "But there are a lot of letters, and it could be awhile before we know which two letters are missing."
GOP Conference Chairman Rep. Mike Pence (Ind.) began soliciting guesses from the assembled representatives and publishing them on his blog, inviting constituents of Boehner to vote for the term that they think Boehner had in mind. "After all," said Pence, "they know him best."
The top vote getters so far: 1. "snot"; 2. "soot"; 3. "smut"; 4. "salt."
"I was thinking maybe he meant 'sbet,'" said Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), "but then I remembered that 'sbet' is not a word."
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