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How is it that we pick the brightest and best leaders to send to Washington and then put up with how bad they continually make<\/strong> it for the rest of us?<\/p>\n

Edward Abbey said: “One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.” <\/p>\n

What do we hear from most corporate leaders and our congressional leaders????? “Teamwork gets it done”… Yes, as long as someone with more authority tells the team<\/strong> what to do…<\/p>\n

I think maybe we are truely at a point<\/strong> of “too many chiefs and not enough indians”.<\/p>\n

Another really good one<\/strong> “Can’t we just remove congress life-support<\/strong> machine?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How is it that we pick the brightest and best leaders to send to Washington and then put up with how bad they continually make it for the rest of us?<\/p>\n

Edward Abbey said: “One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.” <\/p>\n

What do we hear from most corporate leaders and our congressional leaders????? “Teamwork gets it done”… Yes, as long as someone with more authority tells the team what to do…<\/p>\n

I think maybe we are truely at a point of “too many chiefs and not enough indians”.<\/p>\n

Another really good one “Can’t we just remove congress life-support machine?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,13,12],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aprs","tag-bbs","tag-christmas-letters","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nThis one is great as well.... - And That was How it Went<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/this-one-is-great-as-well\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This one is great as well.... - And That was How it Went\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How is it that we pick the brightest and best leaders to send to Washington and then put up with how bad they continually make it for the rest of us? 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