Posted by
Brian Peters on Monday, March 19, 2007 10:24:20 PM
My better half, and she really is...and I were watching '24' tonight and during one of the 'White House' scene's, an arguement came up...as they always seem to do between two Cabinet members. One retorted "I serve at the pleasure of the President'. This caught me like a glancing blow. I thought, that is really just a cop-out.
If you do not want to be held accountable for your actions, words....all one has to say is 'I serve at the pleasure of the President.' Or if as in the fired prosecuting attorney's case, they serve at the pleasure of the President.
What's wrong with that whole picture???
C'mon, think about it.
This also goes to my last blog entry about the great learned leadership and their staff not thinking.
What is wrong is that no one serves at anyone's pleasure. For if they do....then we do not have a Republic of and for the People. We do not have 'elected' officials. We have a monarchy.
Every single position in our Federal Government from Housekeeper to President, is an appointed job. So for a Cabinet member to so easily opt out of consequences by saying they serve at the pleasure of the President.....is like saying they are above the law.
Those prosecuting attorneys, that both Clinton and Bush Administrations had fired.....those were jobs. As all jobs in the Federal Government, those jobs are to serve and protect the Constitution of the United States and it's People. Anything less....then we do live under a monarchy system and not under what is perceived as a Representative Republic of Democracy.
So the saying should be 'I serve at the behest of the People of the United States and stand for the Constitution'. If there's anything other than that....we need a new revolution......preferrably peaceful and at the ballot boxes.
Added 20 March 2007: The line on 24 was 'serve at the discretion of the President'. I found my little note I jotted down to remind me. Discretion, pleasure,whatever....that language indicates a monarchy, not an elected represented official.