Amazingly, so did the Americans. The fuel farm and the ammo dump were completely undefended. So it was a wash. They forgot to attack it, we forgot to defend it.

140 million gallons of bunker oil went unscathed because everybody, and I mean everybody, forgot about it.

This is a problem with Senators, especially since McCain Feingold. They spend time socializing and going to fund raisers. They have zero executive experience unless they had a career outside politics first and few have had one.
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With a nod to Art Deco’s caveats, I could get behind a Constitutional Amendment stating that no person shall be elected or appointed to any government office or position who has not spent at least 5 years (and more as you go up the ladder) employed in some profession with no relation to public service in all its myriad aspects.
In otherwords, get a real job — or employ someone else in a job — before you start telling the rest of us, under threat of law and force, how to live our lives.

Who was the congressman who went back into the private sector to run a business, and admitted that he would never have supported the laws and regulations he helped enact if he had known then what he knew now.

Supposedly, one of Barr’s hobbies is playing the bagpipes. Bet he knows how Longshanks disposed of Wm. Wallace.

The dysfunctions of campaign finance regulation have been with us since 1974, at least. Not sure why McCain-Feingold is so prominent in your thinking.

I think Rudolph Giuliani said after you’ve had experience as an executive, service in a legislative body just doesn’t cut it. My guess would be people attracted to service on conciliar bodies and people attracted to executive positions are distinct types. In New York, you have state legislators who seek out higher office in Albany and you have state legislators who run for Congress. Congress is not typically in the career history of Albany bigwigs, Gov. Carey the exception. The last time an Albany bigwig was elected to Congress was in 1956.

This is a problem with Senators, especially since McCain Feingold. They spend time socializing and going to fund raisers. They have zero executive experience unless they had a career outside politics first and few have had one.

I doubt that’s the problem. Sessions was a fairly rank-and-file lawyer who built relationships with Republican politicians. Nothing wrong with that, but in the course of his career he’s had limited executive experience and none with an agency whose employee census is in three digits. He didn’t have a loyal subordinate working on his behalf. He had Rod Rosenstein. I’ll wager Barr has more g and knows his way around the bureaucracy. Now, whether he’ll do anything…