Dear Mary
You are right. It is not fair for Brownback to keep his personal beliefs to himself. Perhaps he should start doing what Clinton did. You remember.... the "look at me going to church with my Bible and my lovely wife" photo-ops he did every Sunday. He always looked so nice. I wonder if he was wearing Monica's tie? Or, perhaps, her thong underwear.
Ya think?
SE
I saw this AM. I sent her the above email. The last conservative on that paper was a guy named Harris in the mid nineties. He was fired, (more like crucified), for jokingly calling Carla Stovall a "sex kitten" in one of his columns. In fairness, they have been pretty hard on our new governor. (They think she should raise taxes.) This editorial from Friday gives a pretty good idea who they are. Socialists, plain and simple.
http://www.hutchnews.com/past/06-13-2003/opinion/opinion2.html Private sector efficacy
Scandals expose theory as false as accounting
Perhaps more than any other idea, the theory of the superiority of the private sector over the public sector determined election outcomes and drove policy decisions in the late 20th Century.
But corporate scandals, starting with Rite Aid and continuing with Enron, Tyco, ImClone, Freddie Mac and even Westar Energy, have eroded the theory of private sector efficacy. Nothing at the Pentagon or Housing and Urban Development, for example, matches the outrageous actions of the bullies who ran WorldCom into the ground.
Two reports released last week detail what led to an $11 billion overstatement of income and forced the company into the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. Among other things, the reports reveal that:
* Former Chairman Bernard Ebbers attended meetings in which company officials discussed ways to artificially inflate revenue.
* Former Chief Financial Officer Scott Sullivan used what he termed "accounting fluff" to hide that WorldCom's real numbers fell short of Wall Street's expectations.
* At least 40 key employees knew about efforts to mislead investors about quarterly results, yet they remained silent because of threats by upper managers. In one incident, accounting executive Buford Yates warned an underling who questioned the company's books not to show auditors the numbers or "I'll throw you out the (expletive) window."
What great corporate leadership. The greedy characters involved proved the theory of private sector superiority to be as fraudulent as WorldCom's accounting.