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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (43840)	2/7/2002 1:23:53 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Or it is possible that Statesmanship is something different than you seem to suggest? My perspective of statesmanship comes from the classic delineation of behavioral styles in public administration by Downs in Inside Bureaucracy. He describes statesmen, advocates, and a category that he calls call zealots or some such, among other categories. I find his distinction between statesmanship and advocacy significant. I'm partial to statesmanship, much as I'm partial to magnanimity, and it bothers me to see it diminished by the likes of the energy plan. I missed how "mild" the observation was. I have to change my calibration for mildness now. This is what I said: <<It looks exactly like a plan that was developed by a bunch of current and former energy executives. There's no reason to expect that a former energy executive, once he became President, might consider the perspectives of non-energy-executive-Americans, the interests of the country at large, in developing the plan. Or at least feel a need to explain to the public why the interests of energy executives coincide with our own. Nor is there any reason to expect that the participants might find shame in that in the absence of actual bribery. There's no reason at all to expect statesmanship from our leadership.>> And you don't find that mild? I didn't suggest that anyone was a POS or a traitor or a coward or crook or a pinhead. I didn't find fault with with the energy plan itself. I only expressed disappointment that the producers of the plan were monolithic in their thinking and that they invited the inquiry by the way they didn't seem to feel a need to make an effort to communicate how their plan was in the best interests of the citizens of this country rather than just it's framers. If you don't consider that "mild," your exposure to SI hype must have dulled your senses. Karen