> "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deborah Harrell wrote:
> >So, is this a disgruntled employee snapping at the > >folks who fired him? Or is this former member of > the Nixon and Ford admins blowing a whistle for good > >reason? > I think almost certainly the former. <grin> I daresay I have correctly guesstimated the way most of the active Brinellers will have answered my rhetorical questions! > The piece opens with O'Neill criticizing the way > that Bush runs Cabinet > Meetings. It sounds an awful like he just did not > fit into the > operational culture of The White House, as there is > a lot of evidence that > Bush's "CEO" style has managed conflicting ideas > from his staff fairly well in my mind. > > At any rate, who cares about this stuff? <snip> <grim> I also wrote: "Many of the people Bush has chosen to surround himself with - Cheney and Ashcroft in particular - are not friends of the Constitution, democracy, "the common man" or the rule of law. I am quite sure that I never learned in Civics class that indefinite detention, torture-by-proxy, and 'unquestioning belief is the only form of patriotism allowed' were core American values." If the premier leader of the free world acts 'cavalierly' about some important topics, and does not appear to understand basic underlying principles of American government, we had all _better_ care. It is one thing to plan for a possible necessity -- another to make the merely possible seem imperitive. Debbi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
