Michelle Malkin has been all over this embarrassing photo taken of Democratic members of the Connecticut state legislature, during a floor speech by a Republican legislator made as part of……

On September 1st, 2009 at 8:53 pm, Salt said: #85

Would it be too much to ask as voters that we have higher expectations of our legislators?

Nothing wrong with asking, though having an expectation that Legislators sit quietly with their hands folded might be too much to ask. Would they be allowed to doodle? Teasing.

Reading bills is certainly one thing, but wouldn’t that be a difference without distinction? Ignoring the speaker, whether playing video games, reading a bill, newspaper, or magazine is still ignoring the speaker.

These are adults and they can choose to do with their time what they will. Maybe, they have already read the bill. Take a snap shot of any Legislature in the country and I would bet dimes to donuts that many people are doing many things. Nope, it doesn’t make it right, that is just the reality.

Like I said earlier. Much ado about nothing.

On September 1st, 2009 at 7:11 pm, zyzzyg said:

Yes, there are critical issues at hand in the CT Legislature, however what is a single Legislator supposed to do about it while another is speaking on the floor?

I’m reasonably certain they could find something productive to do if they were going to so blatantly ignore the minority party speaker.

How many of these same legislators would later tell their constituents that they simply don’t have the time to read the bills they vote on? Purely speculative, sure, but we’ve seen this type of thing at the federal level. I doubt these same three have bothered to read the budget.

Yep, taking my lumps.

FWIW, I had no enjoyment in doing it, but you said you did it specifically to laugh at someone with which you disagreed and then ironically called him petty.

I think you just let your emotions get the better of you here, particularly since he didn’t say anything offensive or even directed at you.

Oh, and by the way, do you agree that an employee should be fired for doodling?

Depends on the occupation and the type of meeting. I can see both sides of this one. It’s not something where a single rule would apply to all circumstances.

However, Cicerokid said his meeting, not any meeting. I don’t know what he does or the importance of his meetings. No matter how we might feel, though, if he’s the boss he gets to set the standard and I suspect his employees understand this.

Would it be too much to ask as voters that we have higher expectations of our legislators?

On September 1st, 2009 at 5:42 pm, chapoutier said:

Genga it is.

Gen-ga. Gen-GA. Gen-GA! GEN-GA!

I’m just practicing to get ready to go fight that traffic ticket I got last week.

On September 1st, 2009 at 4:13 pm, Salt said: #68

Fair enough. Taking my lumps.

Though I did point out in my post #43 how I felt about typos and grammar. I provided a response to a manager wanting to fire employees for doodling. Not an excuse, or reason. I did it.

Yep, we only saw a picture of what Dems were doing. I wonder what the Reps were doing? And, yes bad behaviour on one side does not justify the bad behaviour for another.

Please refer to my very first post #13. Well, maybe you have because you noted that doodling is simply idle behaviour, which I conclude is much ado about nothing.

Yes, there are critical issues at hand in the CT Legislature, however what is a single Legislator supposed to do about it while another is speaking on the floor?

Yep, taking my lumps. Oh, and by the way, do you agree that an employee should be fired for doodling?