Aspirin for a Broken Leg
While you and I go about our daily business, a Presidential Advisory Panel is at work. Actually, I doubt there’s been a time in recent memory when one wasn’t formed or meeting or in-the-process-of doing one presidential thing or another. It’s classic politics when you haven’t a clue, to put together an advisory panel. A blue-ribbon committee is another vehicle. I’m not sure if a presidential advisory panel outranks a blue-ribbon committee or not. This one was called by President Bush 'to examine large-scale alternatives to the tax code.' Large-scale was not defined and perhaps should have been.
Expenses paid, nice hotels and damn fine restaurants, it's a pretty good gig. This is a bi-partisan
no-obligation advisory panel, whose advice the president is invited to accept or reject or simply sweep under the Oval Office rug. Those are the best kind. Presidents prefer them twenty to one over panels they have to do something about.
But this one suggests as a breakthrough ‘large-scale-alt…