How Many Amendments Fit on the Head of a Pin?
Translating from Le Monde this morning:
In an extraordinary plenipotentiary session of the French National Assembly devoted to drafting a law governing the privatization of Gaz de France, the various parties of the left added 137,347 amendments to the text of the original law. 43,693 of these were added by the Socialist Party, 93,654 by the Communist Party (which is still alive and well in France).
137, 347 separate, bulleted phrases. Imagine that! Have the 25% of working frenchpersonnes who are civil servants been put to the task of writing amendments?
I offer this information to those in the US who don’t read French, who wonder if anything could be worse than American politics, American politicians, and in particular, the Democrat Party’s ongoing feebleness in responding meaningfully to Great Evil perpetrated by Morons. Here we perceive the French equivalent: admittedly no bull-in-the-china-shop warmongering, no torture, no vote rigging, but pretty lame lawmaking, great cynicism, great amounts of bluster. This seems to be the way France deals with important problems of late.
Sigh…
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