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Originally posted by Lanny_MacDonald@Sep 14 2004, 03:08 PM
Good comments Lurch. Just have to say one thing in regards to that. The elected official may not matter much. If you look at Bush's administration you'll see that a lot of the guys that have his ear and are setting policy have been around for years and worked through three Republican administrations. If the PNAC can groom a candidate to win 2008 (say Jeb Bush or Rudy Guliani) they can still control the Whitehouse in the same fashion they do now. With the appointments the President is allowed to make these guys can slide from administration to administration, have huge impacts, and never have to worry about the 4 year term or the accountability factor to the voters.
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Aren't you then simply talking of "The Bureacracy?"
You might have a bigger problem with the impact of life long civil servants in Canada than you do in the USA, the difference being the USA has more impact on global affairs.
Its hardly new. Its common in most democracies, the bureacrats in the background who survive from one government to the next.
Cowperson