Don't they have anything better to do??

[saxikath]

If one of the following is your representative, please contact them and tell them to stop being such twits. (Though it seems this was done by the chairman himself, not by the committee... they still should be chastized.)

Committee on House Administration
Republican Members
Rep. Robert W. Ney, (R-OH) Chairman
Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers, (R-MI)
Rep. John L. Mica (R-FL)
Rep. John Linder (R-GA)
Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-CA)
Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-NY)


Democratic Members
Rep. John B. Larson (D-CT) Ranking Member
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA)
Rep. Robert Brady (D-PA)

Comments

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

What a bunch of retards.

[navrins]

This is getting a heck of a lot of press for something so trivial.

If I'm going to call my representative it's going to be for something a hell of a lot more important than the name of a side dish.

[saxikath]

It just rankles me that they're wasting their time and energy on something so stupid.

[navrins]

I doubt they spent much time or energy on it. Certainly nothing compared to the person-hours spent writing and reading about it on all the major news outlets, livejournal, zephyr, and umpteen other discussion settings. Probably that's why it passed - someone wrote it and nobody felt like spending the time to argue.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

But that's just it. When the United States puts huge amounts of effort into offending our allies, it's annoying, it's wrong, but at least it's a policy that someone thought about, if not hard enough. When members of Congress put no effort at all into offending our allies, it's out of the arena of thought-out decision and into the arena of casual insult. To let it stand, uncensored, is to accept that this sort of casual insult is perfectly acceptable, just the sort of thing you find over the course of a day.

And yes, insults are the sort of thing you find over the course of a day, but (a) that doesn't make them acceptable, and (b) they're worse when they're the actions of an elected official of the U.S. Government, in such a way as to make it look like official government policy.

[navrins]

OK, you have a point there.

Of course, international relations degenerated to the point of name-calling some weeks ago.

[jadelennox]

Besides, if the U.S. is going to destroy our international relationships with Europe, it should be through a vote of both houses. For something so trivial, it's also getting a lot of press internationally -- and everyday the odds of us coming out of this with NATO and the U.N. intact and involving us shrink. And trivial acts by representatives of our government don't help.

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[zenala.livejournal.com]

(said by someone from my old hall this evening)