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Article: Theater disguised as policy not even good theater.(FAST FOREWARD)
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- Healthcare Purchasing News
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- April 1, 2008
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Congress engineered yet another shameless spectacle last month by parading the "guileless" and guiltless but generously compensated CEOs of the leading lending companies to get to the bottom of the bottoming-out and bottom-feeding mortgage crisis, allegedly contributing to the artist formerly known as recession.
You may laugh at these elected officials lobbing pithy, nonsensical questions to a group of feckless guys armed with preordained talking points and basic training on "managing the message." But you also have to cry that these elected officials are wasting taxpayer dollars when they should be concentrating on how to fix all the messes they've created ...