<Since polls to determine what is legally acceptable business practices?>
Since publicly elected officials started running the country?
Naive high school civics guy has to chuckle at this one. The Mind of Reg(TM) is apparently as expert and infallible in matters of governance as it is in everything else. Said mind is as usual operating in some alien context where the distinction between a republic and a democracy is too subtle. So, Reggie, you think Reagan was elected in the hopes that he'd appoint Charles "Rick" Rule and his predecessor as heads of the antitrust division, leading to a de facto enforcement moratorium? I missed that in the Great Communicator's platform. Not that platforms mean anything either. Of course, Reagan's gone now, and Bush was defeated by Clinton, and Dole, who couldn't beat Clinton, is against the greater Bill too.
Once more, for the purposefully dense out there, it is the job of the executive branch to enforce the law, as it sees fit. If antitrust is this huge travesty of justice that the friends of Bill make it out to be, where's your grass roots movement to repeal the law? All we've gotten is the professional "grass roots" whining crybaby movement, about how it's all so unfair to Bill, and the world will crash if he doesn't get his way. At least that was the story a few weeks ago, now the new company line is it doesn't make any difference.
Cheers, Dan. |
