Johnson looked at how German and other cousin languages to English are shockingly frank about the body Durchfall, or "fall-through", is typically blunt; English-speakers, by contrast, resort to Greek for "flow-through", or diarrhoea.
A blunt but honest speaker, Needham wondered why republicans would want to continue blowing up places where their neighbours, relatives and friends made a living.
"I'm the whip," said Mr. Blunt, who with Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois spent hours on Thursday closeted with lawmakers trying to line up backing for the bill.
Wurzelbacher has a reputation for being a blunt, politically incorrect speaker.
The main speaker was blunt.
Two senior House Republican leadership aides were more blunt when speaking privately: Speaker John A. Boehner has no intention of angering conservative voters and jeopardizing the House Republican majority in 2014 in the interest of courting Hispanic voters on behalf of a 2016 Republican presidential nominee who does not yet exist.
A year earlier, in a 60 Minutes interview, the then-aspiring-Speaker was more blunt: When talking about "compromise," Boehner remarked, "I reject the word..
The group, which has opposed the bill from the start, emerged from a meeting in Washington on Wednesday with a blunt message for President Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan: "Start over" on Trumpcare.
Four polls late on Friday put the Syriza leader and outgoing prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, 41, fractionally ahead, but two on Thursday gave the lead to the bluff, blunt-spoken former defence minister and parliamentary speaker 20 years his senior.
Make no mistake: The result of this race will have a direct effect on how effective Bruce Rauner will be as governor for the next two years and how effective House Speaker Michael Madigan will be in blunting Rauner's agenda.
