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...Enron mess, hearings on Capital Hill began today. Joe Lieberman, positioning himself for 2004 from the big chair at the Governmental Affairs Committee, is running the Democratic show in the Senate. He'll be trying to stay centrist with fellow Democrat Carl Levin on his left and Fred Thompson on his right - and $11,500 from Arthur Andersen and $2,000 from Enron since 1989 in his pocket. In the House, the Republicans are eager to show they can be tough on Big Business too - James Greenwood, chairman of the Energy and Commerce oversight committee (a wholly owned subsidiary...
...made abundantly clear last fall, the moment the first anthrax case surfaced. The government did a passable job of controlling the anthrax spores but a terrible job of dispensing medical advice. Frozen in the bright lights of the 24-hour news cycle, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge often looked flummoxed and misinformed, learning medicine on the go and winging it when they didn't know. It was a sharp contrast to the celebrated performance of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who drew a bright line between facts (known and unknown...
...Under Thompson and Ridge, bad--and sometimes fatal--decisions were made. The U.S. government allowed postal workers to continue breathing the air of a sorting facility filled with anthrax spores; it went tearing off to stock up on Cipro when many scientists believed it unnecessary and even dangerous; it wrung its hands about whether to order 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine--sowing its own kind of terror with its very indecision; and it allowed open speculation about quarantines to spread unchecked, without a clear consensus on the extent of its legal powers to impose them in the first place...
...moment there's no single national figure teaching the preparedness lesson. In the 1980s, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop helped calm the early hysteria over AIDS, telling the well how to stay that way and reminding them that in the meantime there was no reason to fear the sick. Thompson and Ridge, national doctors without a medical degree between them, have been no match for that kind of performance. Even Satcher has not achieved the same iconic status. During the anthrax attacks, says Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, chief of the CDC, "we found ourselves deploying more and more people just...
...After one game, we’re 1-0. That’s were we wanted to be and we’re glad to be there,” Thompson said...