HuffPost Hill:
WALTER JONES TO PUSH RESOLUTION PROPOSING MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR TROOPS IF BOEHNER DOESN'T GET ON IT: HPH EXCLUSIVE - Last night, Walter Jones, the North Carolina Republican who has soured on the wars, sounded off to HuffPost Hill about the failure of John Boehner to continue Nancy Pelosi's uninterrupted tradition of holding a moment of silence as a tribute to troops killed and wounded at war. If Boehner didn't agree to hold the ritual by the time the House returns from next week's break, he told us, he'd put in a resolution calling for it, a thumb in the speaker's eye. ... This morning, HuffPost Hill let Boehner spokesman Michael Steel know about Jones' complaint. "We're not aware of any reason why there would be a need for a resolution," responded Steel. "The Speaker agreed to continue the practice a few weeks ago, which had been conveyed to Mr. Jones, and we are having ongoing conversations with him...There was never an issue of whether we would or would not do this." Steel said the details are still being worked out.
Uh, just exactly how hard is it to figure out the "details" of a moment of silence? I mean, isn't silence like, uh, silent? What details are there to figure out? Is Boehner really this incompetent?