Word: yogurts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...guests Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a leading opponent of campaign-finance reform. In dismissing the notion that the cost of a political campaign these days is bound to make politicians beholden to fat-cat contributors, Senator McConnell said Americans spend less on political campaigns than they do on yogurt. By chance, I was eating a container of yogurt when he said that. Blueberry...
...looked down at my yogurt. Then I looked back at Senator McConnell's image on the television screen. He was smiling. The format of the program was a sort of debate with Governor Roy Romer of Colorado, new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Senator McConnell seems to be one of those politicians who are careful to keep a smile on their face when they are being combative. I think it's meant to be a knowing smile. Did he know something about my yogurt that I didn't know? Because...
...what Republican fund raisers call a "season ticket"--access to the committee chairmen of your choice--and about the same amount to get what President Clinton calls "a respectful hearing" at the White House. As they used to say on the South Side of Chicago, that ain't yogurt...
When Senator McConnell compared campaign spending and yogurt outlay, nobody said, "Your point being, Senator...?" He maintained his knowing smile--presumably pleased with himself for having adroitly played the yogurt card...
...Perhaps President Clinton's hesitancy and apathy in this matter could have been reversed by a few hundred informed letters from concerned college students. Unfortunately, political refugees in Zaire pale in importance among Harvard students to poor Lowell House residents who must somehow survive three years without a frozen yogurt machine...