Yaki-ty Yak

Michael Yaki, a San Francisco Democrat (literally and figuratively) recently appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, defends the Commission against charges of financial and political mismanagement.

His strongest argument is that the Commission could not be guilty of serious financial mismanagment because it never had much money.

If alleged financial mismanagement is justification for termination, then Congress should consider it in context. The entire annual budget of the commission is a little more than $9 million. If one were to logically extend the rationale of the commission’s critics to other governmental bodies, there would be little left of the federal government after the sentence is administered to the most egregious transgressors.

I said this was his strongest argument. I didn’t say it was a good one.

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  1. Tim Gannon March 23, 2005 at 11:43 am | | Reply

    When do we start?

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