On the BBC news hour at 9AM

Flavius — Thu, 18 May 2017 18:46:54 +0000

On the BBC news hour at 9AM EDT yesterday a ¨former member of the Reagan and Bush ¨ justice departments¨, plausible , self assured explained that Trump´s attempt to intercede with Comey on Flynn´s was OK because:

1. it´s appropriate for a President to provide ¨guidance¨ to his subordinates, and

2. the country should be run by those who were elected- we´re not an Administrative State.

#1 - the soft ball argument. The kindly old inhabitant of the White House should be able to lead the folks lower down.

#2- no more Mr. Nice Guy - the current fav in the right wing jargon sweepstakes. You may think that the person mailing out the social security checks, or the air traffic controllers, or the one in the guard house at a National Park are sort of your employees. Silly you! Thatś actually the fearsome Administrative State up to its nefarious work. Next thing you know they'll start requiring pure milk. And clean air.

Underlying that capitalized term is the Reagan pronouncement that the Government itself is the problem. No Government , no problem. So why not make Ayn Rand disciple Greenspan Chairman of the Fed? He´ll cut back those damn regulations and when he leaves the Fed in 2006 there'll be nothing for his successor to do.

As long as he doesn ´t mind a world wide financial crisis.

I shouldn´t waste your time and mine vanquishing this paper tiger. When things work, they do so because

someone has made them work.

What the assorted think tanks label ¨The Administrative State¨ is just normal people getting on with their lives

Oh yeah, and being lawful

Flavius — Thu, 18 May 2017 12:25:59 +0000

In reply to ¨He´s a good guy¨

Oh yeah, and being lawful

W. Shakespeare : ¨Troilus and Cressida¨. Act 1, sc iii. Ulysses speaking.

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On the BBC news hour at 9AM

Oh yeah, and being lawful