Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Hortatory Subjunctive

An administration flunky named Lorita Doan tried to block investigations into the government's use of GOP emails, material and campaign recruiting materials to target democrats. Having failed at that, the congress changed hands and now she's on the business end of some sharp probing by the oversight committee.

Specifically she said, when refering to government employees following the law and complying with the oversight committee's requests for information:

Until extensive rehabilitation of their performance occurs, they will not be getting promoted and will not be getting bonuses or special awards or anything of that nature.

Now, on the defensive, she *testifies* that it was all a big misunderstanding about grammatical tense.

Watch here, it's priceless!

Even she shrugs at her defense, like "hey! it's the best I could do! It's not like I can cop to it, then I'd be guilty of violating the Hatch Act"

1 comment:

Broken Pen said...

"she's on the business end of some sharp probing by the oversight committee"

How could you let this one get by? Are you losing it?

Sounds painful......


Tara