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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMoments before announcing defeat to GOP colleagues, Speaker Boehner recited the Serenity Prayer
Speaker offered a prayer before announcing the defeat of 'Plan B'
By Molly K. Hooper, Peter Schroeder and Russell Berman - 12/20/12 09:53 PM ET
Moments before announcing defeat to his GOP colleagues, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) recited the Serenity Prayer often heard at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference, the downtrodden House Speaker said at a hastily called closed-door meeting Thursday night to tell fellow House Republicans that he didnt have to votes to pass his Plan B effort to avoid the "fiscal cliff."
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Instead, the House would wait for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and President Obama to act on measures that the House passed earlier this year.
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/274201-boehner-offers-prayer-before-announcing-defeat-of-plan-b
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Moments before announcing defeat to GOP colleagues, Speaker Boehner recited the Serenity Prayer (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2012
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Wish the Debbie Downers, Sad Sams, and the Cutten Runners here would take that to heart
graham4anything
Dec 2012
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hootinholler
(26,449 posts)1. Now how do we get him reciting the Litany Against Fear?
Because that'll mean he's skeered.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)2. Wish the Debbie Downers, Sad Sams, and the Cutten Runners here would take that to heart
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)3. someone on his staff goes to AA. nt
gblady
(3,541 posts)4. or perhaps.....
he does....
vanlassie
(5,675 posts)5. Well, he obviously NEEDS to.