Month: August 2002

When the Truth Had Consequences

It is hard to observe the latest crop of corporate scandals involving Enron, WorldCom and others without wondering what happened to the tough treatment once meted out to white-collar malefactors and their associates. “No more easy money for corporate criminals, just hard time,” said President Bush when he signed the corporate accountability act last month. So far that is mainly talk.

Hmm, maybe nothing has really happened because Bush would have to go after his Vice President.

When the Truth Had Consequences

It is hard to observe the latest crop of corporate scandals involving Enron, WorldCom and others without wondering what happened to the tough treatment once meted out to white-collar malefactors and their associates. “No more easy money for corporate criminals, just hard time,” said President Bush when he signed the corporate accountability act last month. So far that is mainly talk.

Hmm, maybe nothing has really happened because Bush would have to go after his Vice President.

Related to the previous post. If we are fighting a War on Terror, a War in Afganastan, and maybe a War on Iraq why hasn’t congress declared war? You know like the War on Terror or the War on Drugs. Wasn’t the way it is soposed to play out acording to the constiution that the congress declares war and the president leads the fight? Or maybe I just missed something in school.

Section 8:Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

That is under Congressional Powers.

Related to the previous post. If we are fighting a War on Terror, a War in Afganastan, and maybe a War on Iraq why hasn’t congress declared war? You know like the War on Terror or the War on Drugs. Wasn’t the way it is soposed to play out acording to the constiution that the congress declares war and the president leads the fight? Or maybe I just missed something in school.

Section 8:Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

That is under Congressional Powers.

Help from the Hill, Military insiders want some to derail Bush’s plans for Iraq.

As a rule, both the joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Intelligence Agency’s leadership prefer that Congress stay out of their affairs. Indeed, an ideal Congress for many denizens of this realm would be one that simply holds open the cash spigots while Langley and the Pentagon set their own agendas. That makes it particularly alarming to see that as the Bush administration lays its plans for Iraq, career military and intelligence officers are increasingly — and desperately — looking to Congress to help stave off what they fear will be a disaster.

Can anyone remember the last time, maybe Lincoln, that the military didn’t like the Republican president?

Help from the Hill, Military insiders want some to derail Bush’s plans for Iraq.

As a rule, both the joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Intelligence Agency’s leadership prefer that Congress stay out of their affairs. Indeed, an ideal Congress for many denizens of this realm would be one that simply holds open the cash spigots while Langley and the Pentagon set their own agendas. That makes it particularly alarming to see that as the Bush administration lays its plans for Iraq, career military and intelligence officers are increasingly — and desperately — looking to Congress to help stave off what they fear will be a disaster.

Can anyone remember the last time, maybe Lincoln, that the military didn’t like the Republican president?