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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1611156, member: 41665&quot;]o.k., I laffed. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/a-platinum-coin-as-big-as-the-ritz.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/a-platinum-coin-as-big-as-the-ritz.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/a-platinum-coin-as-big-as-the-ritz.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;There is also an argument to be made for simply arguing for a platinum coin. This is akin to Richard Nixon’s madman theory: if the Republicans believe that Barack Obama would really go through with it, they’ll take what they can get and go home. The fantasy here is that, in the middle of the State of the Union, Obama will take a trillion-dollar coin out of his pocket and toss it onto the floor, a flat platinum apple of discord. In the ensuing frenzy, Paul Ryan jumps over several desks, stiff arming cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court Justices, and Marco Rubio, and then falls on the coin and swallows it—only to look up and see Obama twirling a second coin in his hand. Or something like that. The drop-the-mike mastery the platinum coin promises is why, for example, Talking Points Memo has been putting together a list of people whose portrait could be on it. (Ronald Reagan is one, Dr. Evil is another.)&quot;<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">What is the rule that says if they put a sitting Congressman/Senator&#039;s face on it, s/he MUST retire?</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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