In general, I am in favor of (Nuclear) Reactors. But one type of reactors I can’t stand, and that is the Capital-Hill Class Reactors that are spread through all fifty states, with dangerous waste drifting in and out of Washington DC.
Following politics for many years now, I noticed that Senators and Representatives, those who need to have oversight on all aspects and work of the Federal Government, don’t do that. Instead, they are all reactors to bad things that take place.
Here is a partial list: election-counting problems; 9/11 attacks; Corporate Corruption; DC Sniper; shuttle Colombia crash; WMD that was mostly not found; Katrina; Gas/Oil price increases; SEC missing the Medoff scam; 2008 Financial Meltdown; and finally the Toyota problems.
Personally, I don’t ‘get’ why Congress gets to harass the bosses of Toyota. But my broader point with this list is, that Capital Hill members need to be on the look-out that all government agencies, bureaus and departments to a good job, rather than ‘trying to figure out’ after the fact what went wrong.
Had Congress done a better job with their oversight responsibilities on the Executive Branch operations, half the above-list would have likely never taken place.
