What Will We Do With Crate of Novelty “Freedom Ticklers”?
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Vern Ehlers — “the smartest man in Congress” and also the reddest — is, it turns out, the man responsible for the death of “Freedom Fries” in the Congressional cafeterias, according to today’s Heard on the Hill. Ehlers, as chair of the House Administration committee, has authority, apparently, over the menus of House restaurants and cafeterias. The news that Freedom Fries are back to being French was apparently noteworthy enough to bring Nancy Pelosi to levels of rhetorical power previously seen only when she’s attacking Howard Dean. As her office posted on The Hill’s “congress blog”: MORE »
Vern Ehlers — “the smartest man in Congress” and also the reddest — is, it turns out, the man responsible for the death of “Freedom Fries” in the Congressional cafeterias, according to today’s Heard on the Hill. Ehlers, as chair of the House Administration committee, has authority, apparently, over the menus of House restaurants and cafeterias. The news that Freedom Fries are back to being French was apparently noteworthy enough to bring Nancy Pelosi to levels of rhetorical power previously seen only when she’s attacking Howard Dean. As her office posted on The Hill’s “congress blog”: MORE »
“Boy,” you say to yourself. “There are a lot of things about the workings of our legislative branch that weren’t covered by Schoolhouse Rock. Where can I go to learn all that stuff the Liberal Edutainment Industry doesn’t want me to know?”