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Saturday, June 2, 2007 12:00 AM

Mike Allen, consummate Beltway "journalist"

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    I believe that "Beltway teabagger" is the term of art

    Let's try not to use terms that involve the word "licking."

    That creates way too many unpleasant pictures, don't you think?

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