Friday, July 20, 2007

Meatstick Game: What Do They Have In Common?

What do the following people have in common?
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi
NBA Star, Lebron James
Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki
Republican Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell

All of these people will be taking most of the month of August off.

The House of Representatives calendar says the "Summer District Work Period" is Aug 6th-31st (they come back just in time to take a 3 week vacation for Labor Day). The Senate allots vacation from Aug 6th-Sep 3rd. Similarly, the Iraqi parliament will be off the whole month of August. I guess that only makes sense since we helped them form their government. I hope they get Labor Day off too!

I'm just glad General Patreus isn't taking the month of August off since he is supposed to deliver a groundbreaking assessment of the "surge" in September.



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