A Top-Down Review for the Pentagon. This is brutal. All the naysayers have defended Rummy since the beginning. People like me. I didn't think the war was mismanaged and still don't. However, I think Rumsfeld is not listening to his commanders and that makes for very bad leadership. Perhaps it's time for a change. We have plenty of good men available. We wont' fall apart if he's gone. Bush avoided the requisite 2nd term shakeup (Powell notwithstanding) and I think it's costing him. The complacency and burnout are setting in.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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