Whatever could she mean?
Monday, August 18th, 2008
A solid piece from Julie Carr Smyth on the bumble-squared fiasco that erupted at the top levels of Ohio government earlier this year, when Attorney General Marc Dann bumbled his office administration and Ohio officials at all levels bumbled their response to it.
The problem, as Smyth’s piece develops, is that now the standard of government is “we’ll run around in a panic of self-interest whenever the press or anything else drives us to it.”
Seasoned observers may say it has always been so, but nonetheless, a government that is not based on law is beyond troublesome. It’s dangerous. Split, 5-4 and 4-3 decisions of high courts are a tremendous part of the problem, and so are incidents like the Dann scenario, where everyone concluded he should be hanged, they just were not quite sure for what, or when or, as far as the law goes, why. (more…)
