Asked to respond to President Obama's jokes at Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner about John Boehner's perpetual tan, where Obama called Boehner "a person of color ... not found in the natural world," Boehner's spokesman said:
"I can see no reason to discuss it."
Pressed further, Steel eventually e-mailed this riposte:
"If Leader Boehner had a nickel for every time he’s heard a joke like that, he could make a serious dent in Washington Democrats’ record-setting deficit."
While the "serious dent" isn't defined, at a minimum we're talking millions of nickels ... you'd think that at some point Boehner would buy a clue instead of his tan-in-a-bottle.