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OBEY AND WATERS IN EARMARK ALTERCATION: Two Democrats got into a verbal altercation ? and accor?

By Glenn Reynolds

OBEY AND WATERS IN EARMARK ALTERCATION:

Two Democrats got into a verbal altercation ? and according to one a physical one ? on the floor of the House on Thursday night over an appropriations earmark one was seeking.

After the House floor had largely cleared following a series of votes, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) split apart from a heated conversation and began yelling at one another.

My favorite bit: “Obey turned away, but Waters went to go huddle with members of the Congressional Black Caucus. She could be over heard telling them: ‘He touched me first.’” The country’s in the very best of hands.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).