He says that "the jury is out whether the target regime will degenerate into something that is farcical and useless".Although the targets generally appear to be worthwhile, there are worries that the focus on outcomes that can be quantified comes at the expense of others that cannot so easily be measured.
"They created ground rules that are farcical," he said, claiming that he couldn't have staff in the room, couldn't go home with the documents, couldn't take notes of the documents, couldn't discuss the contents with staff, constituents in the media or other members of Congress outside of a classified facility, and had to be watched while he was reading.
"For any professional team to play on that is farcical.
"But for any professional team to have to play football on that is farcical.
"For the England manager to be watching that is farcical," Terry Butcher, the former national team captain, told BBC radio.
Davies, a parliamentary professional, surely would have known this, just as he'd have known that it was farcical and unhelpful to rant through myriad other points during his 78-minute marathon, including the observation that people who accused him of somehow wanting women to suffer domestic violence were "Twitter morons", likening domestic violence to street crime.
The plea agreement brought to a close at least one chapter in the history of a group that was both murderous and farcical at times.
When the custodian, Karel Dohnal, plays the harmonium it conjures up memories that are both farcical and sad.
Because he has a narrative style that is variously farcical, byzantine and philosophical, and a sense of humor that makes light of countless catastrophes.
The euro, whose future is a core U.S. strategic issue, only received attention in so far as Romney insisted that the United States could be heading in a Greek direction, a suggestion that is just farcical.
These clients come up with scenarios that are so farcical that they're totally unrealistic.
