Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Let Freedom Fry!

Crooks and Liars: ". . .That was over three years ago. Fortunately, Jones has come around and feels embarrassed about his effort — and the fries on Capitol Hill are French again.

Three years after House Republicans trumpeted the new names to get back at the French for snubbing the coalition of the willing in Iraq, congressmen don’t even want to talk about french fries, which are actually native to Belgium, and toast.

Neither Reps. Bob Ney of Ohio nor Walter B. Jones of North Carolina, the authors of the culinary rebuke, were willing this week to say who led the retreat, as it were, from the frying pan. But retreat there has been, as a casual observer can see for himself in the House’s basement cafeterias.

Not a single Republican staffer or lawmaker wanted to comment on the development, but Brendan Daly, a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi said, 'Now that they’ve changed the name of the french fries back, maybe they will admit their other foreign policy mistakes were wrong, too.'"

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