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

[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.