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UPDATE 1:

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee immediately fired up an online petition for folks to email Boehner about their support of a public option.

UPDATE 2: It's a pile-on.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee announced $10,000 in online advertising targeting Boehner, a campaign asking folks to "invite" Boehner to meet with constituents who favor the public option, and a video by a constituent who'd like to meet him.

And, in response to his remark that the public option "is about as unpopular as a garlic milkshake," Boehner's colleague, Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) brought him several cloves of garlic on Friday. Gilroy, Calif., which Honda represents, is the "Garlic Capital of the World."

Honda also shared a limerick that absolutely stinks, even next to garlic: "Two things make for a strong healthy heart. Gilroy garlic, for one, a good start. Public option? Also high, in the American eye, 65 percent n'er want it to part."

Steel reacted: "We said 'thanks.' We like garlic. The point Boehner made yesterday was simply that garlic milkshakes aren't popular, like the Democrats' government takeover of health care."

UPDATE 3: Americans United for Change tees up a golf-themed ad: "Boehner's Bogey."

Boehner to get dessert

After lunch today, the Ohio affiliate of Health Care for America Now is delivering House Republican Leader John Boehner a message and dessert.

Yesterday, Boehner said he hasn't had "anyone" lobby him in support of the public option and said the idea "is about as unpopular as a garlic milkshake."

So Ohio HCANers are headed to Boehner's West Chester, Ohio office to lobby in support of a public option and bring him a garlic milkshake. 

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Rapid Response: John Boehner And The Garlic Milkshake