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Claire Underwood visited him in hospital and, fulfilling her duty as Flotus, coached him not to blab to the cops what really went down in the woods. Most of this episode was taken up with the recovery of Doug Stamper, who proved to be less dead than he looked at the end of season two. In fact, DantonвЂ™s glower suggested he might do what Frank had just done to his dadвЂ™s grave. He would have to leave the room without taking his things from the conference table. As Frank swept from the meeting in high dudgeon, it was left to new chief of staff Remy Danton to tell the patsy politician that his services were no longer required. But, countered the patsy politician that Frank had put at the head of the task force to realise his crazy scheme, these programmes are the bedrock of America. He wants to eradicate unemployment, and put the 10 million jobless Americans back to work by slashing the entitlements budget. In theory, Underwood is a Democrat in temperament, heвЂ™s doing whatever is necessary to get elected. Which suggests Frank may stop at nothing, fresh wars included, to win in 2016. To be fair, Frank had something different in mind вЂ“ he conceived Amworks not so much as a socialistic raid on cash-strapped youth, more a crypto-Reaganite rolling back of the US welfare state in the manner beloved of ordinary God-fearing, tax-terrified Americans (think: Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation), though with the neo-Keynesian twist that all those entitlement savings would bankroll jobs, many of them in the military.

#THE OFFICE US SEASON 3 EPISODE 13 TV#

Too few TV presentersвЂ™ sentences contain вЂќwhereinвЂќ, вЂњlampreyвЂќ and вЂњcroutonвЂќ.

вЂњSo itвЂ™s a socialist raid on the wealthy,вЂќ suggested Colbert, вЂњwherein the baby boomers will latch on to the millennials like a lamprey and just keep sucking until theyвЂ™re as dry as a crouton?вЂќ Marvellous. Frank was there to announce America Works, his new jobs programme, which he claimed would eclipse RooseveltвЂ™s New Deal. Foolishly, he allowed himself to be interviewed on TV by Stephen Colbert, who proved himself an eviscerating interrogator. On the domestic front, the presidentвЂ™s policies are similarly poised. Really, Frank? Crypto-Reaganite attack on the welfare state? We donвЂ™t know yet whether this bombing amounts to the president taking out the terrorist trash or, rather, will result in him becoming known as a child killer.

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Which is, quite possibly, why he agreed to the drone strike on the Yemeni terrorist even though his military advisers werenвЂ™t entirely sure that the kill zone around the target was free of children. If Frank is to be elected in 2016, heвЂ™ll have to risk a bold manoeuvre to woo back voters. Underwood is in so much trouble he dare not accept the resignation of a Supreme Court judge because of his early onset AlzheimerвЂ™s in case the resultant brouhaha over a replacement might allow the Republicans to exercise damaging leverage. Six months into the job and eight out of 10 Americans think Frank lacks leadership and effectiveness his approval ratings are now below those of the milksop he replaced in the Oval Office. And, if this was a treacly photo op, why werenвЂ™t the media allowed to take pictures of Frank at the graveside? The scene didnвЂ™t make a lick of sense, but for the chance it gave us to hear Frank wax hubristic, resume his confidential mugging to camera вЂ“ and unburden himself before his father.ДЄfter the credits, we learned that things arenвЂ™t going well for the unelected leader of the worldвЂ™s greatest democracy. But all the security crew who lingered by their cars, while the president wandered, quite possibility in snipersвЂ™ crosshairs, on a graveyard hilltop, would surely have been fired for gross dereliction of duty. This pre-credits scene nicely established the looming seasonвЂ™s concerns. And theyвЂ™ll have to wait in line to pay their respects.вЂќ вЂњWhen they bury me it wonвЂ™t be in my backyard. вЂњIвЂ™ll tell you this, Pop,вЂќ he told the grave, before turning to face us.

His funeral would be very different, and would not take place in his hometown of Gaffney, South Carolina. In the opening scene of season three, Frank disclosed that he was the only mourner at his fatherвЂ™s funeral (even Mrs Underwood found she had something better to do) and had paid for that gravestone from his scholarship money.

The office us season 3 episode 13