http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrpFSfpXD50&feature=player_embedded

So Barbara Boxer was having a bad day and decided to take it out on a Brig. General.  “Call me “Senator” not “ma’am” because I’ve earned it.”

Did she copy that right out of “A Few Good Men”?   Wow, I’m impressed, very clever.  I repeat movie quotes when I’m at bars with my friends.  I understand “ma’am” is acceptable use in the military.  It’s fine to ask someone to call you something different, if you think it’s more respectful or you don’t like “ma’am” or “sir.”  No problem with that.

But taking a condescending/caustic tone to a subordinate means you just lack class.  Didn’t your mother raise you any better than that?