Cara
Mia
I’ve begun to realize that our federal government is a lot
like a family.
The Addams Family.
In their own, twisted, caring way, Gomez and Morticia want
to project a wholesome image. They liberally support Grandmama and Uncle
Fester. To help the disabled, they provide employment opportunities to such
corporally challenged individuals as Lurch, Thing and Cousin Itt. And the
Addams children, Wednesday and Pugsley, were obviously raised to freely
express themselves as good little future terrorists by blowing up their toy
trains in Hillary Clinton’s "hands-off," global village.
But be careful.
When you visit the Addams mansion, don’t go near the
basement.
That’s where they bury the bodies.
This dark revelation came to me in the wake of a short-lived
federal
decision to cut virtually all funding for research projects at Johns Hopkins
University. You may have heard the story. An asthma study at the school went
tragically wrong when a 24-year-old volunteer, Ellen Roche, inhaled an
unapproved pharmaceutical substance that destroyed her lungs. She died
days later.
Johns Hopkins officials angrily denounced the backlash
decision by Washington’s "Office for Human Research Protections"
calling it "regulatory excess." Quickly, the government
reconsidered and has resumed funding selected projects at the medical
center.
In its goal of projecting a careful, paternalistic image to
the American taxpayers, the government’s knee jerk reaction temporarily
threatened funding
for other ongoing projects including cancer research, all due to one
unfortunate fatal error.
Like a bureaucratic bouquet from the Addams’ garden, the
federal research dollar bloom was definitely off the roses.
And all because the government is so intent on protecting
its image.
But be careful, the basement door is open. And if you wander
around down there, you’ll trip over some bodies.
Isn’t it strange that individuals on the federal payroll
responsible for multiple deaths at such places as Waco, Ruby Ridge and the
World Trade Center are not given jail time or even pink slips…but
promotions, awards and pay raises?
We could take the time to name names like Larry Potts, Lon
Horiuchi and the like. We could recount each of the incidents and add up the
body counts.
But what we’re most interested in at this moment is a
"circle the wagons" philosophy in our national "alphabet
agencies" that insists on protecting its own and burying the truth
several stories beneath Pugsley Addams’ toy Minuteman silo.
What we need inside the beltway are not more "sunshine
laws" but honest-to-goodness sunshine attitudes. Until the powers that
be within both parties are willing to dig up the bodies in the basement,
admit their guilt, clean house and promise such atrocities will never happen
again, they can never expect to regain the trust of the American people.
And no amount of hollow promises or empty terms of
endearment are likely to change that…"Cara Mia."