Guests were served cucumber watercress sandwiches, smoked salmon blinis, chilled Gulf shrimp, blueberry scones and tea.

茶会上提供的饮食包括黄瓜豆瓣菜三明治、俄式熏鲑鱼烤薄饼、冷冻墨西哥湾虾、蓝莓烤饼和茶水。

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On one level the impasse has been reached because of the election last year of reinvigorated, radical conservatives - the Tea Party Republicans - and the ideological gulf between them and the president elected only two years earlier.

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