Pelosi attacks Tom Marino

Ha ha, struck a nerve. Apparently she did hear something she doesn't like. She interrupts, races over. And why don't we ever see Republicans flounce right over and give the prevaricators a piece of their mind directly off the mic? A very small piece, they need all they have.

Once I had a woman rush directly at me angry as h-e-double pointer sticks with her finger extended like this, I seated, she rushing upon me to loom menacingly over me shaking with anger and I was all, "I'm not scared a' you." 

Everybody was shocked. 

The incident became the talk of the whole building.

Very formal setting, formal as this, you should see the conference table and chairs at the FED, you'd think something hugely important takes place there, and it does sometimes, but not this time. No, this time was just another of those absurd management development seminars. An outside firm that employs MBA types comes in to develop team building among managers. We were assigned a ridiculous task of pretending we are an airplane manufacturer interfacing with a government buyer. By a ridiculous process that does not resemble the real world. Our team folded paper airplanes to specifications. A bit of fun, that. Then the instructor rejected each one for this and for that arbitrarily without mentioning the basis of rejection in the specifications, then fold new ones then reject those for this and for that, then fold new ones and as group leader I said, "Too bad. We're out of business. Brought down by a malevolent unaccountable government bureaucrat. No planes for you. Everybody go home, you're out of work." 

Man, she was mad. At me. For my refusal to go further with the exercise.

I looked like a boy in a suit but did not behave like one. That was part of the crossed communication. Sometimes it took people awhile to realize I was grown up. I said, "Get to the point, please." 

Everybody else was frustrated too with the ridiculous game and the waste of time. We had work to do and there was no point to this exercise. I said so. And I held my ground. She really did pull out all the stops to intimidate me but she failed. Her flouncing and motherly charge did not work. Her exercise failed flatly. Because of me.  I said I was finished with all that and left the conference room. I told her try her intimidation tactics with the uninitiated. I have work to do. 

My bosses asked me what happened, I told them, they said, each one said, "Oh, I see." Later they pulled me aside to say "By the way, that company removed the airplane folding exercise from their program." I said, "Eh. They should remove the instructor from the program. We should remove the company from our management development program. We can do better ourselves."

But they did not dissolve their association with the company. Later I was asked to interpret for a deaf person assigned to a class there. This time at their building. Another ridiculous thing. The employee had some uneasiness arise with other employees and his supervisor. One of the most engaging and easy going persons I know, and he was assigned to a course on employee communication and group cooperation. Utterly ridiculous from my point of view. I know the man. He communicates just fine. In fact, he communicates better than they. I have several examples of his superior communication. Any difficulty is not within him. The other party, his supervisor should be the one taking the class. And that turned out to be incredibly difficult for me. Much more so than I ever imagined. An hour here and there is one thing, hard enough to concentrate that long but two full days is far too much. Being mindful of someone else's every word and really thinking about what they are saying well enough to show it is too much to keep up for so long. I need to speak myself, but cannot. I had a profound headache after each day, so the whole night was ruined too. They really do need a couple of interpreters to switch off for a thing like that. Even on breaks and lunch, there is no letting up. The other students want to engage, they were very interested in Jeff because he is gorgeous besides. They wanted to talk to him so my job never stopped. It's not fair.

Here is Nancy Pelosi thinking she's all that in her role of House Princess. Imagining there is some grievance in Tom Marino's description. He is right. They had all the information they needed but acted contrary to requirements, and all the resources necessary to head off this problem before it developed, but they chose not to, rather, they exacerbated the situation by their speeches and by their observable documented actions, and by their inactions, politicizing the whole thing to disaster. And now she flounces and charges forward in attack mode at Tom who describes accurately her and them.