WSJ Blogs/Washington Wire
2:37 pm February 26, 2010
By Jonathan Weisman
Oy, do we have a problem!Rep. Don Manzullo (R., Ill.) knows his gefilte, he knows his Jewish calendar and he knows his trade laws. And boy, does he have the whole megillah down pat.
At a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Thursday with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he revealed a terrible tragedy in the making. A gefilte fish processor in Thomson, Ill., has nine containers of Asian carp, mashed up into gefilte and that slimy sauce and ready to be shipped to Israel for Passover. But it seems the Jewish State has imposed a 120% duty on imported gefilte, drying up the market. More Carp.
It seems to any right thinking person, that we need to solve this problem. Send the Carp to Israel. Pay the duty. Hillary, please help us out of the fish dilemma.
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