tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post5899816042769706825..comments2024-03-28T20:53:49.167-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Cut-Rate CaesarismRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-20615169371930844062020-11-17T11:29:03.396-05:002020-11-17T11:29:03.396-05:00Thank you. Thank you. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-24065670661743335062020-11-17T10:37:37.949-05:002020-11-17T10:37:37.949-05:00Indeed you may, with attribution.Indeed you may, with attribution.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-68880619349668955272020-11-17T08:29:01.427-05:002020-11-17T08:29:01.427-05:00Excellent summation, Roberta. May I quote you?Excellent summation, Roberta. May I quote you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-48863339188268893632020-11-16T23:41:29.950-05:002020-11-16T23:41:29.950-05:00IM(NS)HO, it's not the visible politicians who...IM(NS)HO, it's not the visible politicians who are to blame...it's the bureaucracy they've created, aided and abetted by Willis Carrier.<br /><br />If Carrier hadn't made significant contributions to air conditioning, Washington DC might have remained unbearable a few months out of the year, and the pols and their staffs would have gone home to be among the voters as the Founders seem to have intended, and DC wouldn't have become Ground Zero for paper-pushers. JohnMXLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671095673014400915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-45726080890212957792020-11-16T14:27:53.458-05:002020-11-16T14:27:53.458-05:00Part of the problem is too many people want a Man ...Part of the problem is too many people want a Man On A Horse to "save" them. That, and the inherent laziness and cowardice of congress-critters going back at least a century have given the Presidency it's current Caesar like aura.<br /><br />Hence my push to refer to the occupant of the Oval Office as a Temporary Federal Employee. Another tradition that supposedly goes back to Rome ('thou art mortal")RandyGChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758726126424011542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-72669218433741573112020-11-16T13:05:12.467-05:002020-11-16T13:05:12.467-05:00Bruce, that's perhaps the most off-target comm...Bruce, that's perhaps the most off-target comment I have ever seen -- the whole idea of the Presidency and periodic elections is to *not* have any kind of royal family. Any politician pushing that kind of idea ought to be stabbed to death by his nominal peers. --Not that that prevented it last time.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-81358391178534638412020-11-16T12:11:53.166-05:002020-11-16T12:11:53.166-05:00That seems to make a good argument for a Royal Fam...That seems to make a good argument for a Royal Family to hold executive power. A Family will look at keeping stability down thru generations instead of just the next election.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784265791704333281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-34735432323664462492020-11-16T11:28:12.976-05:002020-11-16T11:28:12.976-05:00Yep.Yep.Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794620086508373660noreply@blogger.com