Zut alors! French fries and French toast are French again!

Neither Reps. Bob Ney of Ohio nor Walter B. Jones of North Carolina, the authors of the culinary rebuke, were willing this week to say who led the retreat, as it were, from the frying pan. But retreat there has been, as a casual observer can see for himself in the House’s basement cafeterias.
“We don’t have a comment for your story,” said a spokeswoman for Mr. Ney.

Is that the same Bob Ney who got into such trouble over political corruption in the Abramoff scandal? I’d like to draw a connection between language mangulation and corruption, but I’m afraid that’s a bit tenuous even for me.

Never mind. The purge is over. Celebrate with a glass of Evian.