June 5th, 2003 — impolite company
Over at Ruminate This, Lisa reports on an issue I wrote about recently: the so-called Family Time Flexibility Act. This is the act which gives employers the flexibility to take away your family time and pay you for it up to 13 months later.
A vote was originally scheduled for today, but after some head-counting and head-scratching, the House leaders figured they didn’t have the votes to pass the bill, so they pulled it from the schedule. But, as Lisa says:
…be wary, because all we’ve got is a temporary stay here. The Republicans simply decided to delay the vote because they didn’t have the numbers this morning. Figure that ’round about the time we’ve our next Code Neon alert, this piece of legislation will be making a quiet return engagement.
June 5th, 2003 — impolite company
In a typical display of arrogance, the Imperial George Bush vowed to “ride herd” over the vassal states of Palestine and Israel as they follow the externally-imposed Roadmap to Peace. He demonstrated his pleasure with himself when he allowed the press corps a rare audience with him on Air Force 1 as they flew to Doha, the capital of the client-state, Qatar. When one reporter asked Dubya about what his role in the peace process will be, Bush replied that his role would be to:
…ride herd. I don’t know if anybody understood the meaning. It’s a little informal in diplomatic terms. I said, we’re going to put a guy on the ground to ride herd on the process. See them all scratching their heads…
They were probably scratching their heads in amazement that such an imperious moron with so limited a capacity for diplomacy and communication could actually be in a position to dictate to them their future.
