Digitus Impudicus

While giving a floor speech in the US Senate, Hon. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Vice-Chairman of the Senate’s sub-committee on Amphibious Automobiles, said, “…before we write an 87 billion-dollar blank check.” (CBS News, Wednesday, September 24, 2003)

Read that again. Carefully.

Update!

I wrote to Jay Nordlinger (NRO) regarding this, and he used it in his most recent Impromptus.