Is There a Yoho in the House?

Yes, there is.  And Gail Collins is having a lot of fun with him.

Let's Make a Deal.  Op-ed by Gail Collins.  (The New York Times, 10/16/2013)

Excerpt:    Important Halloween note: When you’re thinking about party costumes, forget going as Senator Ted Cruz. Everybody will be going as Ted Cruz. (Consider going as Representative Ted Yoho. You would need a name tag, but “Ted Yoho” would be so worth it.)

First, the Good News.  Op-ed by Gail Collins.  (The New York Times, 10/9/2013)

Excerpt:   I am using Ted Yoho because he’s a voluble figure in the caucus of right-wing hard-liners in the House who caused the shutdown in the first place. Also in part because I really enjoy writing “Ted Yoho.”

Photo credit:  Official portrait of Congressman Ted Yoho (R-FL)

Immigration Poses Threat of Another Republican Rift.  (The New York Times, 10/25/2013)

A book not likely to be found in Ted Yoho's library.

Liberty Enlightening the World, link to "The New Colossus", a sonnet written by Emma Lazarus which is inscribed on a bronze plaque on the Statue of Liberty.  I can just imagine how much red pencil Yoho would take to these 14 lines.  But I guess we could say that, metaphorically, he's already done so.

Well, that was written before welfare, sez Matt Weidinger.