Verbosity is a Sickness Unto Death
I was just watching a little bit of the Alito hearings and watched Arlen Specter ask a two-minute question full of the most gaseous, circuitous language I've heard since the last time Dominique de Villepin opened his mouth. Apparently, yesterday, Joe Biden asked an 11-minute question in the same manner. Frankly, I was impressed enough with Alito that he actually was able to discern what the question was in all of that mess. I was watching C-Span 2 a while back and saw an open forum with Tony Blair and his chief ministers, and it floored me how clear and concise they were in their answers. It was almost a pleasure to listen to them. Why can't our congressmen follow suit? That's why nothing ever gets f*cking done.
posted by Face of Spades at 11:16 AM
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That's how this thing called 'government' works. I think. Actually I'm not sure, I can't figure it out, I got distracted somewhere after the constitution.
SPECTRE...SPECIAL EXECUTIVE FOR COUNTERTERRORISM, TERRORISM, REVENGE, AND EXTORTION.
Here's a fun story, re: local politics. Mayor Callahan was banned from the Apollo for banging a chick (who wasn't his wife) in the bathroom. Sources say.
Having Callahan as mayor is like Job being president of Bluth.
"I hope you haven't come for a handout, Michael. I run a pretty tight ship around here. With SPICY cluuuub saaaaauce."
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