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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Friday, July 02, 2004

I thought his party was against this sort of thing

Powell sings!
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell donned a hard hat and tucked a hammer in his belt Friday, performing a version of the Village People's hit "YMCA" at the conclusion of Asia's largest security meeting.

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On Friday, Powell danced alongside five other U.S. officials sporting costumes that included an Indian headdress.

Not sure why the Indian headdress gets a mention. Oh well. I hear Powell is very popular on Kareoke night at the White House when he does his MC Hammer. Bush likes to perform "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2