Should the White House cancel its holiday parties?

[realFedUp]

[babylonsister]

1. Absolutely, but they won't. Remember the coronation? nt

[abbeyco]

2. Uh, aren't they Christmas parties?

I'm just sayin... :shrug:

My own personal feelings are that any funds spend on these self-serving parties should be spend on gift/goodie packages for the troops. Of course, that will never happen out of this sorry-assed group of 'leaders'.

[bigscott]

4. the call them Holiday Parties because

Joe Lieberman is invited to all of them

[realFedUp]

7. I think they invite some Muslims also...

Would love to see some photos of Chalabi at
previous year's parties.

[Benhurst]

3. The parties should be canceled and the money used to

send Barbara Bush to Baghdad. Let the troops know what they are fighting for.

[Caesarmajestic]

5. Coolest idea I've heard to end Iraq war

heh, I remember back a couple of months after we started fighting in Iraq, there was this lady who had lost a son and was really mad. She wrote, and this may not apply as well in winter, that:

(paraphrasing) --- > We need, as a country, to make some showing, some small showing, to our troops that we here in the continental United States are standing with them as they endure hardships in the deserts of Iraq.

Therefore, I am proposing that we shut off all air conditioning in state and national government buildings for the duration of this war. This shows that we as a people are at least willing to endure the same furnace-like conditions that our troops are going through on a daily basis in the deserts of Iraq. We could at least do that.

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This woman apparently knows the mental state of most government employees and contractors - which is that they are weak and complaining. The obvious outcome here was, laughingly, that these people would quickly complain so much that we would HAVE to get out of Iraq. Can you imagine the bitching inside every government building as these fools went about playing Windows Solitaire and Minesweeper in (just) 90 degree heat?

hehe

[babylonsister]

8. Welcome to DU, Caesarmajestic! I like the no-a/c idea!

Gawd knows here in TX I couldn't live w/o it! Perhaps 'cooler' minds would prevail?

[realFedUp]

9. I definitely see a disconnect between lawmakers

and the men and women on the line.
Welcome to DU too. :hi:

[hobbit709]

6. Let them eat cake

Let them learn what happened to the last group with that idea-they got shortened.