Roast Quayle

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Jim Himes is not exactly a posterboy for carbs.

But the Democratic congressman from Greenwich couldn’t resist making a potato reference today in comments on the House floor.

Fellow Dems say Himes deserves credit for a provision in the GOP jobs bill cutting red tape for community banks, not Arizona Republican Ben Quayle.

If the name sounds familiar, that’s because it is.

Quayle is the son of former VEEP Dan Quayle, who once bungled the spelling of potato at a school spelling bee.

Here is the video of Himes’ not-so-subtle diss of Quayle:

Neil Vigdor