Ace...what you said was that I "
seemed to suggest among other things in other threads that Chicago during the 60's-80's did not work with the coruption and cronyism and seemed to imply things are different in Washington."
I made no such judgement about Chicago on this or any other thread (but for the record, I happen to agree with you about past corruption and cronyism at the municipal level) ...my comment was that things are absolutely different in Washington...I will add here...that is because of much more strict personnel/administrative laws at the federal level (ie civil service act, hatch act,etc) regarding the management of government agencies than ever existed in cities like Chicago. That is until those laws and practices were so blatantly violated in the last 6 years at levels never before in my time in Washington.
Your inconvenient triuths (no, falsehoods) are catching up with you.....and this should not be interpreted as calling you "cynical, narrow minded or dumb".....well mabe "narrow minded" but that would only be in response to your "pollyanish" charge
