Will someone commit this idiot?

[Bruce H]

Lawmaker Wants to Put 'French' Back in Fries
Tue September 16, 2003 10:39 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To get international help to rebuild Iraq, Congress may have to eat some French fries and French toast, according to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
Saying it is time to put aside differences with France, the Texas Democrat circulated a letter on Monday urging the U.S. House of Representatives to put back the word "French" in fries and toast on House cafeteria and dining hall menus.

Lawmakers ordered them renamed "Freedom" fries and "Freedom" toast last spring, reflecting anger at France for its opposition to the U.S.-led war to topple Saddam Hussein as Iraq's president.

But times have changed, Jackson Lee said, and now the Washington is trying to get France and other members of the United Nations to contribute money and troops to help stabilize Iraq and rebuild its devastated infrastructure.

"President Bush is now urging that all parties put aside 'past bickering,'" she said in her letter. "A symbolic start to that effort" would be reinstating foods on the House menus "with their traditional 'American' names -- French toast and French fries."

Rep. Bob Ney, head of the House Administration Committee, ordered the changes in March. The Ohio Republican took the action at the suggestion of Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican.


This is why we have the problems in federal as well as state matters. We elect idiots to represent us.

 

[rock jock]

Oh yeah, Texas' own Sheila Jackson Lee. We're so proud.

 

[Mark Tyson]

Jackson Lee ... wasn't she a communist?

 

[Bruce H]

Don't feel bad rock jock, Missouri has Gephardt.

 

[Tamara]

You mean that some people actually called them "freedom fries"? I guess these are the folks who put "liberty cabbage" on their hot dogs.

(I'm sorry, I just find official linguistic shibboleths to be teriffically amusing... )

 

[benewton]

Following Tamera on this one...

Who starts this stupidity???

That said, realistic moving targets are very hard to find, and I fail to see why Sheila Jackson Lee is still wasting good air.

 

[Grey54956]

Hmmmm...

I always hated that "Freedom Fries" garbage. Seriously, this is the kind of knee-jerk patriotism that leaves me grumpy and disgusted. If its the best our country can do, then I am truly worried for the future.

And as far as the French go, I kind of like having them around. We need someone to poke fun at, and they do us a great service by providing homes for silly liberal communist actors from crazy Hollywood. The more of them that move to France, the better. So, let's give it up for France, a relatively silly, albeit benign place, that with a little luck will remain a perfect example of what we don't want our country to become.

 

[seeker_two]

I'm for changing them back to French Fries if we can change ketchup to Demo-Rat Sauce (Red through & through)...

 

[HankB]

I have no love or respect for the French as a people.

They're the ones who gave shelter to Ayatollah Khomeini during the reign of the Shah.

They're the ones who denied U.S. overflight permission when we were going after Khadaffi.

They're the ones who seem to oppose us at every turn, even though we pulled their cookies out of the fire twice during the 20th century.

They're the ones that . . . ahhh, what's the use. I simply don't like France, and I support efforts to boycott French products.

But renaming French fries and French toast to Freedom fries and Freedom toast . . . now, that's just silly.

 

[Don Gwinn]

Tamara, they didn't call them Freedom Fries, they passed a law declaring that to be the new official name.

As has been pointed out, Mrs. Lee's proposal is no more or less stupid than the original goofiness.

 

[Ed Straker]

Let's also change the name of the Mars candy bar.

 

[Slotback]

Regardless of what you call "fries" Texas still needs to get rid of that boil on the backside that is Sheila Jackson Lee.

She is an idiot.

 

[Futo Inu]

I think Schumer and "J-Lee" should be handcuffed together and exiled to France - we'd all be better off. Mmmm, pan-fried toast with syrup sounds yummy...

 

[greyhound]

I know I've asked this before, but how did she get elected form TEXAS!

She seems like the twin sister of Cynthia "BUSH KNEW!" McKinney!

 

[Aces]

Isn't this the same bimbette who pushed for black sounding names for hurricanes? And who, upon seeing pictures from Mars surface, axed "where are the flags the astronauts planted"?
Scarier yet are the people who vote for her.

 

[foghornl]

Slotback...you insult the good idiots everywhere ! ! ! !

Not that I don't have my own "backside boils" to contend with here in Ohio...

Former US Rep. James 'Dead Possum for a Toupee' Trafficant

Dennis "When I am President" Kucinich...The "boy mayor" that years back nearly drove Cleveland to bankruptcy....

Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, one of the co-sponsor of the "Our Lady of Peace Act" bill in congress..co-sponsored with "When I am King...uhh President" Kucinich.

Ohio State Sen. Eric Fingerhut, who help kill off a decent CCW reform bill...about as useful as stuff from the old mail-order company of the same name.

RINO US Senators DeWine & Voinovich.

I could go on & on, but my blood is already boiling over.....

 

[BigG]

I would say, rather, "commit the idiots who elected that idiot."

 

[CZ 75 BD]

Another example...

of someone with entirely too much time on her hands. Come on Houston,
surely you can do better than this.

 

[SGT109FA]

She should be Hillary's campaine manager.

 

[rock jock]

Come on Houston, surely you can do better than this.

If you knew her constituent base, you wouldn't say that.