More old political blog stuff

This is the trouble now. Before, there was too little. Now, there is too much. I am just watching CSPAN, the budget hearings and Katrina, NSA hearings, and need to sit down and organize all I'm viewing.

(Had a bout of high blood pressure because of the medicine I was on. So that didn't help. I'm trying to catch up on all my blogs.)

Back to CSPAN. The more you watch, the sicker you get. Our government institutions, it seems to me, are so in danger of becoming hopelessly corrupt. The budget process, for one, seems totally out-of-step with reality. There is so many boogey-boogey inferences about assets and liabilities that I wonder how anyone can figure out what is being spent and where the money is to come from. The administration can always go to the Congress for emergency appropriations, would we all had that option. The President's Budget is a political document, not a real budget, like you and I would need to have to survive. The Congress is left to make the tough choices, it is their responsibility, and reap the political outcome, good or bad. The executive branch wants all the glory, so to speak, and someone to point at, if things go bad. What a joke.

Now, to the president. Not the present one, or maybe it is this one. But why all the deference to the president of this country. Why can't his cabinet, or someone in charge of a disaster, get a hearing from him. Why can't that person just get up in his face, and shout it out if he or she thinks he needs to. Mike Brown, got a luke warm response from the president and his men, because of who he was? And how many Americans suffered and continue to suffer because of Katrina. Powell was locked out from the president over the run-up to Iraq. He should have been in the president's face about the bad intelligence. There were no controls on Cheney. He could lie to his heart's content and even usurp power from the president with abandon.

This whole system is broken and we don't need the excuse of its damaging the war effort if we call for it to be fixed.