Ya know, Neil. Franks trumped two administrations that tried to rein in his excesses and serious conflicts of interest. Neither Clinton or Bush succeeded and now Franks is externalizing, mud balling and playing the victim role. All I can surmise is that Franks has some serious stroke and is impervious to criticism and a much needed federal investigation.
Some assert that Franks has an orientation King’s X and is untouchable. Maybe, but a bit of serious spade work and an ugly and far reaching corruption scenario will be uncovered; I’ll bet on that. The question on the plate is if or not the feds are going to hand out the shovels and start digging. Given the high and thick armor afforded Franks, I’d say it simply isn’t going to happen. Humpty dumpty sat on a wall……take two, coming up. And just guess who gets to be humpty dumpty.
And the rest goes; “Humpty dumpty had a great fall and all the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put humpty dumpty back together again”
Sure Lt. John, an Auto industry bailout is in the works. But just more useless Brownian motion and painted in a corner situation with no way out, I reckon. When process and product development have serious and significant punitive measures involved, then process and product development goes to all ahead slow or dead stop. It doesn’t take a brain trust to figure the snake eating tail relationship between the Auto Makers and the UAW. They are locked in a death dance and no small wonder the feds have to pony-up to keep the death dance going. No responsible funding institution is going to touch all that with the other guy’s ten foot pole. Too bad, but as Forrest Gump asserts;, “Stupid is as stupid does”.
Scamp