[Rhodes22-list] Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif/Let the games begin.

[Brad Haslett]

David,

I'll bite too!

Since you know about management, you probably know about the company policy
of not getting hummers on company property, at least that's the policy at my
employer (I had a co-worker get fired for enjoying himself too much in
first-class returning from Europe with a friendly companion).  If it were a
ballot initiative, I'd vote for it, but alas, such is not the case. Clinton
got impeached for something that we'd all lie about.  Except, he lied under
oath.  He was elected to be chief executive and commander-in-chief, not to
increase his potential audience of young paramours. But I digress, we're not
talking about Slick Willy.  Impeaching Willy was a waste of time and
resources, fun, but not very productive.  Of course there is talk of
payback!  Politics is a contact sport!

The more I think about it, the incoming Dems should investigate the hell out
of everything.  Start with pre-war intelligence.  Most of these guys/gals
voted for the war so what happened?  Did that dumbass academic
under-achiever Bush read the intelligence report to them or did they read it
themselves?  When Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Pelosi, et al, reached the same
conclusions years earlier based on 'intelligence', were they lying or was
Bush reading it to them at that time as well? By all means, lets
investigate!

Bush did run off talent.  He ran off Janet Reno because he didn't want his
ranch near Waco attacked.  He ran off Madeleine Albright because foreign
leaders we're afraid to look at her and Condi is HOT!  There were probably
some others.

He weakened the balance sheet?  Maybe yours brother, not mine.  A 12,000 DOW
has done wonders for my 401K.

He did squander some alliances.  We can't count on France to watch our back
anymore!

By all means, let's investigate everything, starting with Katrina.  As long
as everyone is pinned down in committee meetings and investigations, they
can't pass legislation to get in our pockets.

Bring em' on!

Brad


On 11/12/06, David Bradley <dwbrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, Herb, I'll bite.
>
> You made a comment that an investigation of the Bush administration is
> political payback, vs. fixing the things that are wrong.  I said I hoped
> they did, in fact, do a thorough investigation after years of
> mismanagement,
> and that the poliitcal/media rhetoric wouldn't get in the way.  You seemed
> to think the term mismanagement is somehow a mischaracteriztion, and that
> the president has made decsions appropriately within the context of his
> political platform.
>
> When politicians talk, I think they are many steps removed from the
> reality
> of every situation they discuss as they try to simplify, spin, or twist
> what
> is almost always a complex situation.  Then the media get ahold of it and
> it's even further removed from reality.  That's why I think the rhetoric
> is
> dumb -- because it never does a fair job of explaining what's really going
> on.  It gets in the way of the kind of reasoned debate that -- well --
> managers would be expected to undertake in running a business.
>
> I don't know much about politics, but I know a little bit about
> management.
> I think the president was elected and paid to be a chief executive and
> commander in chief.  At least one of those jobs is about management.  The
> list of bad management decisions he made seems pretty long, in my opinion
> (and it sounds like maybe yours too?).  He dangerously weakened the
> balance
> sheet.  He squandered alliances and resources.  He drove away talent.  He
> embarked on a war with no plan to succeed based on weak intelligence and
> emotional decisions.  He put weak managers in place.  He surrounded
> himself
> with people who think like him.  He ran the place like a damn family
> business.  None of that can be explained away by a political platform.
>
> I truly hope a change of course in Washington can put a spotlight on as
> much
> bad decision making as possible, to head off any more stacking of the
> deck,
> and to take advantage of a CYA window for a bilateral Congress to try to
> set
> some things right.
>
>
> Dave B
>
>
> On 11/11/06, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> >
> > "dumb rhetoric" - would that be things like "6 years of mismanagement
> > (with two more to go).
> > I think the thing that galls me the most when I see things like that is
> > the fact that after 4 years, he not only got to keep his job, he got it
> by
> > more votes and a larger margin than the first time around.
> >
> > Guys, the one you didn't want being in charge does NOT amount to
> > "mismanagement".
> >
> > The guy who won doing things the way he said he was going to, although
> it
> > may be unheard of in politics these days, is NOT mismanagement.
> >
> >
> > Herb Parsons
> >
> > S/V O'Jure
> > 1976 O'Day 25
> > Lake Grapevine, N TX
> >
> > S/V Reve de Papa
> > 1971 Coronado 35
> > Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast
> >
> > >>> dwbrad at gmail.com 11/11/2006 12:30:14 pm >>>
> > Hmm.  It seems to me that 6 years of mismanagement (with two more to go)
> > warrants an evaluation.  I sure hope they start now in what is sure to
> be
> > a
> > long process of "unstacking the deck."  It sure would be nice if they
> > could
> > keep the dumb rhetoric to a minimum while doing it, but that's probably
> > too
> > much to hope for, and to me not all that important.
> >
> > Dave B.
> >
> >
> > On 11/11/06, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > That's his version of "bi-partisanship" and "returning civility to the
> > > Congress".
> > >
> > > So, instead of working on "fixing all those wrongs" they say, the Dems
> > are
> > > going to concentrate on a little payback for Clinton.
> > >
> > >
> > > Herb Parsons
> > >
> > > S/V O'Jure
> > > 1976 O'Day 25
> > > Lake Grapevine, N TX
> > >
> > > S/V Reve de Papa
> > > 1971 Coronado 35
> > > Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast
> > >
> > > >>> R22RumRunner at aol.com 11/10/2006 7:32:15 pm >>>
> > >
> > > LOS ANGELES - The Democratic  congressman who will investigate the
> Bush
> > > administration's running of the  government says there are so many
> areas
> > > of
> > > possible wrongdoing, his biggest  problem will be deciding which ones
> to
> > > pursue.
> > > There's the response to Hurricane  Katrina, government contracting in
> > Iraq
> > > and on homeland security, political  interference in regulatory
> > decisions
> > > by the
> > > Environmental Protection Agency and  the Food and Drug Administration,
> > and
> > > allegations of war profiteering, Rep.  Henry Waxman, D-Calif., told
> the
> > > Los
> > > Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
> > > "I'm going to have an interesting  time because the Government Reform
> > > Committee has jurisdiction over everything,"  Waxman said Friday,
> three
> > > days after
> > > his party's capture of Congress put him in  line to chair the panel.
> > "The
> > > most
> > > difficult thing will be to pick and  choose."
> > > __________________________________________________
> > > Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________
> > > Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Bradley
> > +1.206.225.7793
> > dwbrad at gmail.com
> > __________________________________________________
> > Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Bradley
> +1.206.225.7793
> dwbrad at gmail.com
> __________________________________________________
> Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list
>