Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

I did not call for them to redact the word, I questioned why they felt the need to put quotation marks around the word:



The news media and even the US President has been referring to the Congress as a "do nothing Congress." They have very low poll numbers. Putting quotation marks around the word "work" has a clear meaning. Just like when I have referred to ALPA as a "union".

So again I ask the question: Was it wise to describe the Congress this way when we (ALPA) are lobbying that very body for protection against some very real threats to our job? It was clearly somebody on the Delta MEC trying to be funny and hip in order to dump on the Congress like everyone is doing now. I'm just saying it was a dumb and unforced error to insult the Congress this way when we're lobbying them.

Carl