# What's the Next Shiny Thing To Come From Washington?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-shiny-thing-to-come-from-washington/359489>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 5, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-shiny-thing-to-come-from-washington/359489 "2006-06-05T15:41:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-shiny-thing-to-come-from-washington/359489/61 "2006-06-07T20:59:22Z")

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Don’t use the words “final solution” around this Administration. It will only give them ideas.

Hello, Mr. Godwin, and how are you this afternoon?

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-shiny-thing-to-come-from-washington/359489/62 "2006-06-08T05:00:58Z")

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> [@DMC](#):
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> It will be threefold. Gays, illegal immigrants (actually Mexicans in many minds, but that would be racist, so they’re going to sugarcoat it for us), and terrorists. If they could somehow pull it off, they’d try and convince us that all Democrats are gay Mexican terrorists.

Aaah, I remember when it was _chic_ to be a “gay Mexican terrorist”!

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**Author:** ![RenMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@RenMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RenMan)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-next-shiny-thing-to-come-from-washington/359489/63 "2006-06-08T17:21:51Z")

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Latest shiny bit: [Goodbye Zarqawi](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq_al_zarqawi)

[don tinfoil hat]  
You just gotta wonder how long our intelligence forces knew where this guy was, and how carefully timed his death was.  
[doff tinfoil hat]

Or maybe the whole Zarqawi-dead/election-year thing was a coincidence.

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