Blair House Debacle

What a complete waist of both the political process and the American people's time. I was under obviously the false impression (not that I really believed it) that Obama wanted to move the debate of fixing what's wrong with the American health care system forward. I all received from watching this congregation of ill-fitted egoistical narcissists was a bigger headache that I had before I turned on the television.

What we really got a true picture of is the way business of the past use to attempt to solve problems - get some "high-powered" employees in a room and work out a solution - usually the one put forth by the most powerful person in the room. Hmmmmmmmmmmm!! I wonder who that was????

In the mean time, the business world over the past 20 years has moved beyond this group-think type of profligation of no solution at all; or at the very worst the wrong solution and have developed many methodologies for solution resolution, among these are:

• Six Sigma
• Lean Thinking
• Theory of Constraints (TOC)
• ISO 9000 Quality Standards
• Total Quality Management (TQM)
• Toyota Production System (TPS) (maybe we should rethink this one?? lol)
  
• Just-In-Time (JIT)
• Benchmarking

Did anyone see even the hint of any of these methods being used. Hell, give me a white board and dry erase pencil and even I could have brought these idiots to a resolution on many of the very issues that debated.

What is so obviously clear when a particular methodology is used to find a solution is that 1) group think is destroyed by analysis and prioritization and 2) biases are easily exposed.

Constitution - Article 1 - Section 3

Section 3
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each
State, chosen by the People of the several States, for six Years; and each Senator
shall have one Vote.

The People of the several States shall chose their respective Senators from
differing party affiliations and from a pool of formerly elected House Members
If no qualifying formally elected House Members exist then The People of the several
States shall chose their respective Senators from the body of the legal residents of
said State.

Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election,
they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the
Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second
Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the
third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be
chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise,
during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may
make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which
shall then fill such Vacancies.

No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty
Years, and is a natural born Citizen of the United States, and who shall not,
when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.

No Person shall be a Senator for more than Two Six Year Terms.

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but
shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

Without regard to party affiliation the Senate shall choose their other Officers,
and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when
he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for
that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the
United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be
convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than the removal from
Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or
Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be
liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to
Law.

Constitution - Article 1 - Section 2

Section 2
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second
Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall
have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of
the State Legislature.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of
twenty one years, and is a natural born Citizen of the United States, and who
shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which they shall be
chosen.

No Person shall be a Representative for more than Two Two-Year Terms.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States
which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Number of
legal citizens of this United States and of their respective States.

The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting
of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten
Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The total Number of
Representatives shall not exceed one for every one million, but each State
shall have at Least five Representative and each officially recognized territory of
these United States shall have at Least One Representative.

The House of Representatives shall have a makeup with regard to party affiliation
which does not allow for a majority belonging to any one party.  All political parties
that have at a minimum 5 percent of registered legal citizens shall have proportionate
representation in the House of Representatives.

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive
Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.

Without regard to party affiliation The House of Representatives shall
choose their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of
Impeachment.