Congressman looks very parliamentary

[Highball]

One thing about this situation that amazes me is the Emergency Service Workers (ESW's) were no longer in a Rescue mode but rather in a Recovery mode. Where was OSHA when this was being accomplished without benefit of Self Contained Breathing Apparatus? There is federal OSHA law that dictates in hazardous atmospheres the use of an SCBA is mandated. If this operation was still a federal supervised operation the fed's should stand up for their oversights without requiring any further legislation. If it was the state of New York then it should be their responsibilty to care for these ESW's who were exposed.

 

[Bar Sinister]

Same crap, repeated time after time ad nauseum:

Clinton balanced he budget.

Yeah, right!

In balancing the budget Clinton was forced to do so by a newly elected and having been in the electoral wilderness for 40 years, Republican Congress, before they succombed to the inevitable siren song of corruption.

Those Congressman who were elected in 1994, knew that the idea of representative republic is imbedded in the idea that one comes to serve and then retires from public office. Most of them had enough integrity to do just that.

However, all before them and after them kept looking out only for their own re-election chances, miserable pathetic worms that they were.

Like I said before: The United States needs to have two changes: 1. Term limits, so that the worthless bastards who rule now would be dumped longed before their "best-before" label expires and 2. Line-item-veto for the President, so that all the expensive crap piled upon legitimite bills can be rejected by a responsible President.

Sounds as if you are advocating that the US switch to a system closer to parliamentary democracy than what it has now. You do realize that giving a president a line item veto would enable him to act very much like a Canadian prime minister. I don't really find too much wrong with that, but in the US with its almost impossible to change constitution it simply is not going to happen.