From the representative that brought you Hurricane Roshonda.
Lawmaker Wants 'French' Back in Fries
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:20 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With America needing all the help it can get in Iraq, it's time to swallow our pride and give the French back their fries, a House lawmaker said in a letter to her colleagues.
House Republican leaders last March, angered by French opposition to U.S. plans to take military action against Iraq, ordered that all restaurants in the House replace the french fries on their menus with ``freedom fries.'' But now, said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, we need to bring the French back to the table.
``President Bush is now urging that all parties put aside 'past bickering.' Delays in rebuilding international good will are costing Americans lives in Iraq, and billions of dollars to the American taxpayers,'' Lee wrote last week in a letter first reported by the congressional newspaper Roll Call. ``A symbolic start to that effort would be reinstating foods in the House cafeterias and dining halls and their traditional 'American' names -- french toast and french fries.''
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The honorable representative reminds me of a Mark Twain anecdote:" Suppose you are an idiot. Now suppose you are a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."And yes, the jokers who came up with " freedom fries" are likewise idiots.
The whole freedom fries thing was so embarrassing to start with... and I thought it couldn't get any more embarrassing. I suppose I should have known that Congress can always find a way to make us look even more stupid than before.