Why do legislators keep getting tapped for running departments and agencies? Aside from the fact that the legislator was elected by their fellow citizens to represent them or their state in the legislature; the legislator doesn’t have executive or administrative skills by virtue of being a legislator. A legislator says “This is WHAT we want to happen.” An executive says “This is HOW we will make it happen.”

(This is what I perceive as the problem with the parliamentary system.)

Look at Daschle, in the legislature for umpteen years and doesn’t know how to track taxable income. Because he thinks WHAT and not HOW.

Why doesn’t the incoming Executive go after executives to run his departments – Governors, administrators, CEOs, people who think of HOW they can make something happen.  He’s got a few, I hope they do well.

One last thought, The President is not King, The President is not King. The People are King, The People are King.