How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There? (IMPORTANT PIECE FROM TIME)

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note to mods: i posted this earlier in LBN and it was moved... take note! this is a NEWS ARTICLE. it is NOT AN OPINION PIECE. it falls well within the guidelines of LBN. any mod who buries this article in general discussion is a freeper who is trying to cover up the truth.


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109345,00.html

How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There?
A TIME inquiry finds that at top positions in some vital government agencies, the Bush Administration is putting connections before experience
By MARK THOMPSON, KAREN TUMULTY, MIKE ALLEN / WASHINGTON

Posted Sunday, Sep. 25, 2005

In presidential politics, the victor always gets the spoils, and chief among them is the vast warren of offices that make up the federal bureaucracy. Historically, the U.S. public has never paid much attention to the people the President chooses to sit behind those thousands of desks. A benign cronyism is more or less presumed, with old friends and big donors getting comfortable positions and impressive titles, and with few real consequences for the nation.

But then came Michael Brown. When President Bush's former point man on disasters was discovered to have more expertise about the rules of Arabian horse competition than about the management of a catastrophe, it was a reminder that the competence of government officials who are not household names can have a life or death impact. The Brown debacle has raised pointed questions about whether political connections, not qualifications, have helped an unusually high number of Bush appointees land vitally important jobs in the Federal Government.

The Bush Administration didn't invent cronyism; John F. Kennedy turned the Justice Department over to his brother, while Bill Clinton gave his most ambitious domestic policy initiative to his wife. Jimmy Carter made his old friend Bert Lance his budget director, only to see him hauled in front of the Senate to answer questions on his past banking practices in Georgia, and George H.W. Bush deposited so many friends at the Commerce Department that the agency was known internally as "Bush Gardens." The difference is that this Bush Administration had a plan from day one for remaking the bureaucracy, and has done so with greater success.

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this is a must read!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Easier to count the non-browns.... when you think about it. After all

we are in Iraq.... and it took a whole lot of brown to get us mucked up in there...

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2. Lock

This article was moved because it is not breaking news. This is a news analysis piece. The forum it was moved to is Editorials and OTHER ARTICLES. This is under the catagory of "other articles".