Cleaner retry loop on cfquery?

Is there a cleaner or better way to do a retry loop on a flaky cfquery than something like below?

<cfset RETRY_COUNT_MAX=10>
<cfset RETRY_SLEEP_MS=3000>

<cfloop index="retryCount" from="1" to="#RETRY_COUNT_MAX#"><cftry>

<!--- do a cfquery or a cfhttp or anything that could be not work for a couple seconds --->

<cfbreak>
<cfcatch>
  <cfif retryCount GTE RETRY_COUNT_MAX><cfrethrow></cfif>
  <cfthread action="sleep" duration="#RETRY_SLEEP_MS#" />
</cfcatch>
</cftry></cfloop>

I do so many queries and passing of SOAP packets that I'd love some way to have code reuse.  I find myself not having a (necessary) retry loop just so my code is readable.

Here's my failed attempt using Custom Tag:

<cfif (ThisTag.ExecutionMode EQ "Start")>
<cfset retry_tag_index=0>
<cfelse>
<cfset retry_tag_index=retry_tag_index+1>
<cfif retry_tag_index LTE 10>
  <cfexit method="loop" />
<cfelse>
  <cfexit method="exittag" />
</cfif>
</cfif>

<cfimport prefix="tags" taglib="tags">

<tags:retryOnError>
<!--- do a cfquery or a cfhttp or anything that could be not work for a couple seconds ---> 
</tags:retryOnError>

But although I can loop with <cfexit method="loop" />, I can't seem to figure out how to do the necessary error handling in a custom tag.  I don't think it's possible.  Where would one even put the cftry?

Here's my less than useful attempt with cffunction:

<cffunction name="retryOnError">

<cfargument name="fn">

    <cftry>

<cfloop index="retryCount" from="1" to="#RETRY_COUNT_MAX#"><cftry>

     <cfset Arguments.fn()>

<cfbreak>
<cfcatch>
  <cfif retryCount GTE RETRY_COUNT_MAX><cfrethrow></cfif>
  <cfthread action="sleep" duration="#RETRY_SLEEP_MS#" />
</cfcatch>
</cftry></cfloop>

</cffunction>

<cffunction name="doTheQuery">

<!--- do a cfquery or a cfhttp or anything that could be not work for a couple seconds --->

</cffunction>

<cfset retryOnError(doTheQuery)>

Why less than useful?  The variables needed by the query are going to be out of scope, and passing each one would be more complicated that having a loop for each query. For example:

<cfloop query="qry">

     <cfset retryOnError(doTheQuery,lots of stuff needs passed in here)>

</cfloop>

Plus you can't declare cffunction inline in code execution if you plan on using cfthread because cfthread is considered a function (what an odd implementation) and you can't declare a function in a function.

I couldn't think of anything clean to even try with cfcomponent.

Any ideas?