Posted on 06/04/2002 7:14:24 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
Why does Congress have that authority? They are only empowered to fund the activities of agencies ... why can't the Executive Officer hire and fire his employees at will? The bureaucrats work in the org chart under the President, not the Senate Majority Leader. Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers. Linda Tripp was fired. Clinton fired the Travel staff, he fired 50 something Federal Attornies, many RTC staff and investigators, etc. etc.
Obviously not Bush.
Yeah, putting your money into shorting stocks is not jeopardizing your family in any way. Gold is fine ... but 10 years ago the Dow was about 2800 and the Nasdaq was about 600. Even after ALL this give back, it's still a tripling of your money in one decade. What was Gold's price per ounce in 1992?
Investing in companies like 3M, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, WalMart, Kroger, HomeDepot and Phillip Morris will always be smart. MyStinkyBum.com was dealt with. The companies that grew off of the ridiculous IPO proceeds of MyStinkyBum.com (Cisco, JDSU, Global Crossing, Razorfish, Schwab, Yahoo, Akami, Qwest) are being dealt with. People are still buying diapers, underwear and laundry detergent at Target. They're still buying cereal from General Mills, burgers at McDonalds, laundry detergent from P&G and twelve packs of Coca Cola. They're buying cigarettes, clothing, televisions, band aids, ketchup, soap, prescription drugs, CDs, paper towels, light bulbs, movie rentals and dog food. They use credit cards, take out mortgages and buy insurance. I invest in those companies, and I'm doing fine.
Christine Todd Whitman "runs" the EPA as the top administrative manager. She reports to George W. Bush.
It's like asking ... who "runs" GE? Who "runs" Dell Computers. Hundreds of thousands of GE and Dell employees accross the world do. The Chairman of the Board and the Directors represent the ownership and manage the CEO, the CEO is the executive officer who manages the operations of the entity. The head of GE Capital "runs" the financial arm, the head of GE Engines manages that division, the President of NBC runs that group, and the the head of Light Bulbs runs the light bulb operations. They report to a Chief Operating Officer. The Chief Financial Officer "runs" the financial and accounting groups. The Chief Administrative Officer runs the human resource, investor relations, regulatory and legal staff. The COO, CFO, CAO and International guy report directly to Jack Welch or his successor. He reports to the Board. The Board serve at the pleasure of the investors.
If Michael Dell "runs" Dell Computers, or Bill Gates "runs" Microsoft, then George W. Bush "runs" the EPA. That's not how complex managed organizations work though, eh?
But for purposes of FR debate, let's just say it's all George W. Bush's personal fault. K.I.S.S.
I sure hope Bush had the foresight to get Whitman's letter of resignation before she was appointed to the EPA.
The results of a study commissioned by any Agency has no bearing whatsoever on the policy or legislative agenda of the Administration. Whitman couldn't kill that thing, it was leaked to the NYT before she probably knew that it existed. Big deal.
"White House now says it hasn't changed its position. EPA boss Christie Whitman sure has a knack for blind-siding her boss; someone should inform her that Al Gore lost the election."
A liberal policy is a liberal policy whether it's advocated by a "conservative" or a liberal.
1. The spell checker police are nit wits.
2. I did NOT mis-spell any words. I did miss getting one letter in my haste. Technically this is a mis-spell but it is more indicative of my poor tying abilities than of my intelligence.
3. Interesting you did not have an intelligent rebuttal to my accusations.
4. I never defended Rush. Why the animosity? I call stupidity on the carpet when I see it and I saw lots in this thread. Why?
Seriously, which posts or posts offended you? And did I do anything except call a pig a pig when I saw it? Notice I did NOT defend Rush. I do not listen to him more than a few minutes a week. I personally do not like him. But that does not change the fact that the posters I responded to were full of bull crap.
Well, the definitive RINO, Christine Todd Whitman oversees it -- I guess when she's not on the ski slopes of Switzerland...
As for "running" the country (and world for that matter), I was under the impression all major decisions still have to be rubber-stamped by the Bilderbergers, the CFR, the Trilateral Commission.
Would anybody care to refute the fact that NO ONE has done more to rally the conservative cause in the last ten years or so than has Rush Limbaugh?
Has Limbaugh been selling KoolAid on his web site?
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