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...world's toughest region, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry deserves a Teddy for the sheer courage he showed in going out among the Afghan people - and for standing against the prevailing tide, advising the President against sending more troops until the Afghan government cleaned up its act. General Stanley McChrystal deserves a Teddy as well, for seeing clearly the problems with the Afghan mission, reporting his misgivings honestly and then working with a new President to create a new campaign plan that, we must hope, will turn the tide...
...course, this is hardly the first time the Senate has tried its best to ruin good legislation. Opposition to the Social Security Act came overwhelming from the Senate Finance Committee, which did its best to turn the act into the stingy—and straight-up racist—bill that was eventually passed. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had to be watered down at the last minute by Senate GOP leader Everett Dirksen and then-Senators Hubert Humphrey and Robert F. Kennedy ’48 in order to avoid a successful filibuster. Then, as now, the structural...
...fact that the Senate has traditionally derailed legislation that I support is, of course, not a good enough reason to abolish it. The fact that it consistently neglects the popular will, however, is. Take the example of the Social Security Act. In 1935, when the bill was being debated, Congressman Ernest Lundeen proposed a far more radical bill, in which all workers, regardless of race or industry, would be provided with generous benefits provided by taxing the incomes and estates of wealthy Americans. The American people strongly supported the Lundeen proposal, with a New York Post poll at the time...
This should not be surprising. The senate is not set up to account for the popular will, but to resist the passions of voters. James Madison said as much in Federalist No. 63, writing that the Senate would act as “a defense to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions.” This should be offensive to small-d democrats everywhere, but aside from that, Madison’s defense of the Senate fails on its own terms. The Senate blocks not just benefits for the masses, but legislation of all varieties. As Texas...
...Accenture Game over. The consulting firm was the first to cut ties with Woods. "They had no choice," says Ganis. "Accenture tied their whole corporate image to Tiger Woods. To them, he represented competitiveness, the ability to judge things well and the ability to act appropriately." One out of three doesn't cut it here. Accenture's position is unique in that it sells a business service and all firm-client relationships are built on trust. As it turns out, Woods isn't as trustworthy as we might have thought. Plus, Accenture's "Be a Tiger" ad taglines were turning...