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This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene.
And I'm Renee Montagne. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, is not usually one to back down from a fight. But in taking herself out of the running to become the next secretary of state, she has avoided a bruiser in the Senate. Rice has been under fire from Republicans, who accuse her of misleading Americans about the attack in Libya that left a U.S. ambassador dead. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on what prompted this decision now.
MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: In her letter to President Obama, Susan Rice says she's convinced that if she were to be nominated, the confirmation process would be costly for the White House. And she told NBC's "Rock Center" with Brian Williams, the administration doesn't need any distractions.
AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE: I didn't want to see a confirmation process that was very prolonged, very politicized, very distracting and very disruptive because there are so many things that we need to get done as a country.
KELEMEN: Rice says she will continue to serve as ambassador to the U.N., though she would have liked a promotion.
RICE: Yeah, sure, how could you not want to, in my field serve at the highest possible level?
KELEMEN: President Obama says he regrets what he calls the unfair and misleading attacks on Rice. It all started in September, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declined to go on the Sunday talk shows to discuss the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya. So the White House turned to Ambassador Rice. She tells NBC she has no regrets, though she got caught up in what she calls a political vortex.
RICE: From my point of view, it's almost an out of body experience. You know, I know who I am. I see myself on the television screen in all my different outfits and I hear things said about me that I know don't bear any relation to who I am.
KELEMEN: Her critics on Capitol Hill blasted her for repeating administration talking points on Benghazi that turned out to be wrong. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, who had threatened to block Rice's nomination, says he respects her decision to withdraw as a candidate for secretary of state. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa says he would have given Rice a day in court, but adds he was glad she pulled out.
REPRESENTATIVE CHUCK GRASSLEY: It's the easiest for everybody. It's got nothing to say what kind of secretary of state she'd make because I don't believe I can make a judgment on that right now.
KELEMEN: Speculation is now turning to Senator John Kerry as a potential secretary of state nominee. Grassley says the Massachusetts Democrat would be easily confirmed if President Obama taps him.
GRASSLEY: Even if we don't agree with Senator Kerry on some of the domestic issues, we think that he has handled foreign relations as chairman pretty good, and so I think he'd have an easy confirmation.
KELEMEN: Kerry said in a statement that he's worked closely with Rice and pointed out that she was one of his advisors when he ran for president. Kerry said he felt for her throughout these difficult weeks. He did not mention whether he would like to replace Hillary Clinton, who plans to step down at the end of this term.
Michael Mandelbaum, who teaches American foreign policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies says the secretary of state is usually the one cabinet job that remains above partisan rancor. But Rice was facing a lot of opposition.
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM: A partisan tinge to the office is certainly not unprecedented but substantial opposition in a confirmation vote for this particular office really would be, as far as I can remember, without precedent and that may be one of the factors motivating this withdrawal.
KELEMEN: Rice's withdrawal won't end the debate over what happened in Benghazi, Libya and how the administration portrayed it. Members of Congress say they expect to hear from Secretary Clinton next week once she gets a report from her review board. The State Departments says that panel is still working. Michele Kelemen, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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X-PRO Hawk Mini Dirt Bike, Gas Power 4 Stroke Dirt Bike! 40CC Pit Bike, Pull Start, 10" Wheels!
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Key Features
The 4-stroke engines have proven to be more reliable and durable than the 2-stroke engines. Chain Transmission and Pull Start provides much easier control and handling for young riders and gives the rider the great convenience in the event of a stall. Additionally with the 4-stroke you get:
More torque:
In general, 4 stroke engines always make extra torque than 2 stroke engine at low RPM.
More fuel efficiency:
4 stroke engines have greater fuel efficiency than 2 stroke ones because fuel is consumed once every 4 strokes.
EPA Approved:
As power is generated once every 4 strokes & also as no oil or lubricant is added to the fuel; 4 stroke engine produces less pollution.
More durability:
We all know that more the engine runs, quicker it wears out. 2 stroke engines are designed for high RPM. If an engine can go for 10000 rpm's before it wears out; a 4 stroke engine with 100 rpm will run for 100 minutes than the other 2 stroke engine which has a higher rpm of 500 & will run for only 20 minutes.
No extra addition of oil:
Only the moving parts need lubrication intermediately. No extra oil or lubricant is added to fuel
Starter Bike:
you're better off going too small rather than too big if safety is your biggest concern.
40cc motor
puts out strong, predictable power! Single cylinder,4-stroke,air cooling
40cc engine
powerful than regular 50cc engine.
Max speed:
22 mile/h.
Front and Rear Disc brakes
supply strong, reliable stopping power.
2.50-10 Front and Rear tires
offer great traction.
Off Road Use Only.
Assembly Required
If you are in the market for a small dirt bike then the 4-stroke dirt bikes are your best choice. The small 4-stroke dirt-bikes are perfect for beginner use. However, it is also a fun bike for young riders who already know how to ride and it would be a great foundation for a pit-racer or backyard-track bike. It is a TON of bike and performance for the dollar.
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Xinyue Brand, 40cc, 4-stroke, air cooling, single cylinder
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Manual-hand Pull Type
0.9kw at 6500rpm
1.6Nm at 5000rpm
Max Speed
22 mile/h
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Welder high strong steel tubes
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Assembly for MOST dirt bikes includes: Handle bar brackets (c-clamps), front wheel, front brake, number plate and front fender. (May differ per model)
Normally it will take up to 3 business days to process your order. Most orders will be shipped from our warehouses in Los Angeles. After our shipping company picks up your order from our warehouses, the estimated delivery time will be 3-10 business days depends on your location.
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Note: For oversized bikes, there might be a chance that our trucking company driver cannot unload this bike with liftgate on his own. The reason is that there is no lift gate big enough to unload this bike and this bike is too heavy for one person to unload. If our trucking company informs us so, you are expected to have several friends to help our truck driver to unload the bike when it arrives at your door. You can also provide a business address with a forklift to us for delivery or you can go to trucking company local terminal to pick up your bike.
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Off-road riding is great fun! When you take proper safety precautions, injury is less likely to occur. As a responsible rider, you must outfit yourself in appropriate safety gear every time you hit the trails. Doing so keeps injuries and equipment damage to a minimum.
Buy a helmet safety approved by the Department of Transportation. It will have "D.O.T." stamped on the back, near the base. It should fit snugly, allowing very little head movement within the helmet.
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Obtain a high-quality pair of off-road riding boots. Tennis shoes and hiking boots are not safe enough for off-road trail riding. A single rock can break an ankle on an ORV trail. Stout riding boots with heavy-duty casings are essential trail safety gear.
Buy a comfortable pair of riding gloves. Vibration from the handlebars can cause sore hands and wrists. A good pair of riding gloves will absorb some of the impact and make your ride more enjoyable.
Purchase the appropriate clothing. Regardless of outside temperature, wear a lightweight, long sleeved shirt and thick, full-length pants to protect the skin. Breathable material is necessary, as are bright colors easily visible to oncoming riders. Riding pants and jerseys offer the rider much needed protection from overhanging limbs, branches, and flying debris.
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I bought this bike for my 7yr old. I was very hesitant to purchase this. He rides this thing for hours daily. I've had zero issues with it. Granted it hasn't been treated like a real dirt bike smashing thru the woods and things like that. Just been ridin around the yard and street. It's powerful enough for me to enjoy also. I'm 174lbs and 5"11 and it goes. The little man is around 60lbs and it goes. I have nothing bad to say so far. It makes my little man happy so that's all that matters. I'm actually going to buy 2 more. It's good to learn on before you go up to the expensive bikes.
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The competition events you will be training for are:
- Squat: Max Reps in 75 seconds
- Tire Flip: 25m for time
- Log Clean and Press: Max Reps in 75 seconds
- Farmers Walk: 25m for time
- Atlas Stones: 5 stones for time
These are typical of the events you would find at many strongman competitions. They also cover a wide range of functional human movement – from squatting, to carrying, to putting heavy weight overhead. Therefore, whether you are training for a strongman competition or not, this is an ideal cycle to get you strong across the board.
This cycle is partly based on the Westside Conjugate Method. You will repeat the following four cycles:
- Maximum Effort Lower Body
- Maximum Effort Upper Body
- Dynamic Effort Lower Body
- Dynamic Effort Upper Body
The Dynamic Effort day should be done at least 72 hours after the corresponding Maximum Effort Day. For the Maximum Effort days, go hard and heavy. For the Dynamic Effort days, go fast and furious.
There are a few key differences from pure Westside principles. Firstly, whereas the ultimate aim of Westside is to make you a better powerlifter, in strongman you also need to be strong across multiple repetitions. This is the difference between a 1 rep max squat versus squatting for max reps in 75 seconds. Therefore the rep schemes reflect that difference. Also, the traditional bench press main lift and variations are replaced with overhead press and variations to more closely match strongman requirements. In this case, the main press lift is performed with a log.
If you have access to bands, chains and a variety of speciality squat bars (e.g. a safety bar), use them to vary the main lifts on week by week. This will increase the effectiveness of the program dramatically. Although this programming is largely strongman, it mixes in a few basic bodyweight elements to help retain perspective on strength.
(Credit to Total Performance Sport for the inspiration behind this programming.)
Week 5, Day 3: Dynamic Effort Lower Body
- Squat: 9 sets of 3 reps
- Stones: 5 sets of 2 heavy stones
- Yoke: Light, 5 trips of 30m
- Sled Pull: Medium, 4 trips of 20m
- Reverse Hyper: 2 sets of 12 reps
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Loans, Alms and Surety*
1The merciful lend to their neighbor,
by holding out a helping hand, they keep the commandments.a
2Lend to your neighbor in his time of need,
and pay back your neighbor in time.b
3Keep your promise and be honest with him,
and at all times you will find what you need.
4Many borrowers ask for a loan
and cause trouble for those who help them.
5Till he gets a loan, he kisses the lender's hand
and speaks softly of his creditor's money,
But at time of payment, delays,
makes excuses, and finds fault with the timing.
6If he can pay, the lender will recover barely half,
and will consider that a windfall.
If he cannot pay, the lender is cheated of his money
and acquires an enemy at no extra charge;
With curses and insults the borrower will repay,
and instead of honor will repay with abuse.
7Many refuse to lend, not out of meanness,
but from fear of being cheated needlessly.
8But with those in humble circumstances be patient;
do not keep them waiting for your alms.
9Because of the commandment, help the poor,
and in their need, do not send them away empty-handed.c
10Lose your money for relative or friend;
do not hide it under a stone to rot.
11Dispose of your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High,
and that will profit you more than the gold.d
12* Store up almsgiving in your treasury,
and it will save you from every evil.
13Better than a mighty shield and a sturdy spear
it will fight for you against the enemy.
14* A good person will be surety for a neighbor,
but whoever has lost a sense of shame will fail him.e
15Do not forget the kindness of your backer,
for he has given his very life for you.
16A sinner will turn the favor of a pledge into misfortune,
17and the ungrateful will abandon his rescuer.
18Going surety has ruined many who were prosperous
and tossed them about like waves of the sea;f
It has exiled the prominent
and sent them wandering through foreign lands.
19The sinner will come to grief through surety,
and whoever undertakes too much will fall into lawsuits.
20Help your neighbor according to your means,
but take care lest you fall yourself.
Frugality and Its Rewards*
21Life's prime needs are water, bread, and clothing,
and also a house for decent privacy.g
22Better is the life of the poor under the shadow of their own roof
than sumptuous banquets among strangers.h
23Whether little or much, be content with what you have:
then you will hear no reproach as a parasite.
24It is a miserable life to go from house to house,
for where you are a guest you dare not open your mouth.
25You will entertain and provide drink without being thanked;
besides, you will hear these bitter words:
26"Come here, you parasite, set the table,
let me eat the food you have there!
27Go away, you parasite, for one more worthy;
for my relative's visit I need the room!"
28Painful things to a sensitive person
are rebuke as a parasite and insults from creditors.
* [29:1–20] Some practical maxims concerning the use of wealth. Give to the poor (vv. 8–9), lend to a needy neighbor, but repay when a loan falls due lest the lender's burden be increased (vv. 1–5) and his kindness abused (vv. 6–7); through charity build up defense against evil (vv. 10–13). Help your neighbor according to your means, but take care not to fall (v. 20), for the shameless play false and bring their protectors and themselves to misfortune and ruin (vv. 14–19).
* [29:12–13] In Ben Sira's day, almsgiving and righteousness were practically identified.
* [29:14–17] Ben Sira is more lenient on going surety than earlier sages; cf. Prv 6:1–5.
* [29:21–28] Those who provide their own basic needs of food, clothing and dwelling, and are content with what they have, preserve their freedom and self-respect (vv. 21–23). But if they live as guests, even among the rich, they expose themselves to insult and rebuke (vv. 24–28).
a. [29:1] Dt 15:8; Ps 112:5; Prv 19:17.
b. [29:2] Ex 22:24–26; Lv 25:36; Mt 5:42.
c. [29:9] Sir 4:1–6; Lv 19:9–10; 23:22.
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In so many ways our country seems politically divided. Nevertheless, last month's election left 11 states controlled by supermajorities, meaning one party occupies the governor's mansion and owns the overwhelming majority in the legislature. Let's get a sense for the dynamic in one of these states - Indiana. Republicans seem in command. And yet despite their new leverage, Indiana's Republican lawmakers are preaching caution and a need for increased bipartisanship. Indiana Public Broadcasting's Brandon Smith reports.
BRANDON SMITH, BYLINE: During the last two legislative sessions, Democrats here employed walkouts to block or delay passage of controversial legislation in the Republican-controlled Indiana House. But now that tactic will no longer work. With Republicans controlling 69 seats in the chamber, they have more than the two-thirds necessary to prevent any such effort.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE BRIAN BOSMA: I want to meet with her very soon. So...
SMITH: Speaking with legislators and their families at a gathering following the first official day of the new session, House Speaker Brian Bosma stands out. At six-foot-four, he's physically imposing and he's been his party's leader in the House for a dozen years and says he won't run roughshod over the Democrats.
BOSMA: Someone might step into the role and say, yeah, now's my chance. But I've been here long enough and been in the minority most of that tenure to understand that everyone is elected independently to participate in the process here, so we will work with those who are willing.
SMITH: But Bosma's caucus is bigger than any the Republicans have had in 40 years. Longtime Hoosier political analyst Ed Feigenbaum says when Republicans gained a supermajority back in 1972, they lost it only two years later because of outside political forces.
ED FEIGENBAUM: 1972 was the Nixon landslide and 1974 was the reaction to Watergate.
SMITH: Feigenbaum says the new supermajority is built largely on the state's shifting demographics and redrawn districts. But he's not sure that will make holding onto the supermajority any easier.
FEIGENBAUM: When you're dealing with more than 60 races, you know, of which maybe 45 may be truly potentially competitive, that's a lot of money to have to raise in order to defend all of those seats.
SMITH: Still, until those elections come around again in two years, you could argue that Democrats in the legislature might be functionally irrelevant. But House Minority Leader Scott Pelath argues just the opposite. He says because of the numbers, Republicans may need to reach out to Democrats even more than in the past.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT PELATH: I think Speaker Bosma, if he doesn't already know it, realizes he's going to have some of his own divisions within his own caucus. Just because there's a lot of members from one particular party doesn't mean they don't have some intense disagreements.
SMITH: There's one legislator here in the House who remembers what it was like to be in a superminority. South Bend Democrat Pat Bauer says despite the appearance of having no power, the minority can still effect change.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE PAT BAUER: You offer your ideas on the floor, you offer them at committee, you repeat it in the Senate if you can, and just get the people to know.
SMITH: So even with supermajorities in both houses, it isn't expected that there will be a lot of controversial legislative proposals. That's in part because over the past two years, Republicans have already passed a Right to Work bill, massive education reform measures, and legislation halting funding to Planned Parenthood. They might fear that pushing the same kind of extreme proposals would just make their supermajority short-lived.
For NPR News, I'm Brandon Smith in Indianapolis. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Federalist No. 70
The Executive Department Further Considered
From the New York Packet
Tuesday, March 18, 1788.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
THERE is an idea, which is not without its advocates, that a vigorous Executive is inconsistent with the genius of republican government. The enlightened well-wishers to this species of government must at least hope that the supposition is destitute of foundation; since they can never admit its truth, without at the same time admitting the condemnation of their own principles. Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy. Every man the least conversant in Roman story, knows how often that republic was obliged to take refuge in the absolute power of a single man, under the formidable title of Dictator, as well against the intrigues of ambitious individuals who aspired to the tyranny, and the seditions of whole classes of the community whose conduct threatened the existence of all government, as against the invasions of external enemies who menaced the conquest and destruction of Rome.
There can be no need, however, to multiply arguments or examples on this head. A feeble Executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.
Taking it for granted, therefore, that all men of sense will agree in the necessity of an energetic Executive, it will only remain to inquire, what are the ingredients which constitute this energy? How far can they be combined with those other ingredients which constitute safety in the republican sense? And how far does this combination characterize the plan which has been reported by the convention?
The ingredients which constitute energy in the Executive are, first, unity; secondly, duration; thirdly, an adequate provision for its support; fourthly, competent powers.
The ingredients which constitute safety in the republican sense are, first, a due dependence on the people, secondly, a due responsibility.
Those politicians and statesmen who have been the most celebrated for the soundness of their principles and for the justice of their views, have declared in favor of a single Executive and a numerous legislature. They have with great propriety, considered energy as the most necessary qualification of the former, and have regarded this as most applicable to power in a single hand, while they have, with equal propriety, considered the latter as best adapted to deliberation and wisdom, and best calculated to conciliate the confidence of the people and to secure their privileges and interests.
That unity is conducive to energy will not be disputed. Decision, activity, secrecy, and despatch will generally characterize the proceedings of one man in a much more eminent degree than the proceedings of any greater number; and in proportion as the number is increased, these qualities will be diminished.
This unity may be destroyed in two ways: either by vesting the power in two or more magistrates of equal dignity and authority; or by vesting it ostensibly in one man, subject, in whole or in part, to the control and co-operation of others, in the capacity of counsellors to him. Of the first, the two Consuls of Rome may serve as an example; of the last, we shall find examples in the constitutions of several of the States. New York and New Jersey, if I recollect right, are the only States which have intrusted the executive authority wholly to single men. [1] Both these methods of destroying the unity of the Executive have their partisans; but the votaries of an executive council are the most numerous. They are both liable, if not to equal, to similar objections, and may in most lights be examined in conjunction.
The experience of other nations will afford little instruction on this head. As far, however, as it teaches any thing, it teaches us not to be enamoured of plurality in the Executive. We have seen that the Achaeans, on an experiment of two Praetors, were induced to abolish one. The Roman history records many instances of mischiefs to the republic from the dissensions between the Consuls, and between the military Tribunes, who were at times substituted for the Consuls. But it gives us no specimens of any peculiar advantages derived to the state from the circumstance of the plurality of those magistrates. That the dissensions between them were not more frequent or more fatal, is a matter of astonishment, until we advert to the singular position in which the republic was almost continually placed, and to the prudent policy pointed out by the circumstances of the state, and pursued by the Consuls, of making a division of the government between them. The patricians engaged in a perpetual struggle with the plebeians for the preservation of their ancient authorities and dignities; the Consuls, who were generally chosen out of the former body, were commonly united by the personal interest they had in the defense of the privileges of their order. In addition to this motive of union, after the arms of the republic had considerably expanded the bounds of its empire, it became an established custom with the Consuls to divide the administration between themselves by lot one of them remaining at Rome to govern the city and its environs, the other taking the command in the more distant provinces. This expedient must, no doubt, have had great influence in preventing those collisions and rivalships which might otherwise have embroiled the peace of the republic.
But quitting the dim light of historical research, attaching ourselves purely to the dictates of reason and good sense, we shall discover much greater cause to reject than to approve the idea of plurality in the Executive, under any modification whatever.
Wherever two or more persons are engaged in any common enterprise or pursuit, there is always danger of difference of opinion. If it be a public trust or office, in which they are clothed with equal dignity and authority, there is peculiar danger of personal emulation and even animosity. From either, and especially from all these causes, the most bitter dissensions are apt to spring. Whenever these happen, they lessen the respectability, weaken the authority, and distract the plans and operation of those whom they divide. If they should unfortunately assail the supreme executive magistracy of a country, consisting of a plurality of persons, they might impede or frustrate the most important measures of the government, in the most critical emergencies of the state. And what is still worse, they might split the community into the most violent and irreconcilable factions, adhering differently to the different individuals who composed the magistracy.
Men often oppose a thing, merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. But if they have been consulted, and have happened to disapprove, opposition then becomes, in their estimation, an indispensable duty of self-love. They seem to think themselves bound in honor, and by all the motives of personal infallibility, to defeat the success of what has been resolved upon contrary to their sentiments. Men of upright, benevolent tempers have too many opportunities of remarking, with horror, to what desperate lengths this disposition is sometimes carried, and how often the great interests of society are sacrificed to the vanity, to the conceit, and to the obstinacy of individuals, who have credit enough to make their passions and their caprices interesting to mankind. Perhaps the question now before the public may, in its consequences, afford melancholy proofs of the effects of this despicable frailty, or rather detestable vice, in the human character.
Upon the principles of a free government, inconveniences from the source just mentioned must necessarily be submitted to in the formation of the legislature; but it is unnecessary, and therefore unwise, to introduce them into the constitution of the Executive. It is here too that they may be most pernicious. In the legislature, promptitude of decision is oftener an evil than a benefit. The differences of opinion, and the jarrings of parties in that department of the government, though they may sometimes obstruct salutary plans, yet often promote deliberation and circumspection, and serve to check excesses in the majority. When a resolution too is once taken, the opposition must be at an end. That resolution is a law, and resistance to it punishable. But no favorable circumstances palliate or atone for the disadvantages of dissension in the executive department. Here, they are pure and unmixed. There is no point at which they cease to operate. They serve to embarrass and weaken the execution of the plan or measure to which they relate, from the first step to the final conclusion of it. They constantly counteract those qualities in the Executive which are the most necessary ingredients in its composition, vigor and expedition, and this without any counterbalancing good. In the conduct of war, in which the energy of the Executive is the bulwark of the national security, every thing would be to be apprehended from its plurality.
It must be confessed that these observations apply with principal weight to the first case supposed that is, to a plurality of magistrates of equal dignity and authority a scheme, the advocates for which are not likely to form a numerous sect; but they apply, though not with equal, yet with considerable weight to the project of a council, whose concurrence is made constitutionally necessary to the operations of the ostensible Executive. An artful cabal in that council would be able to distract and to enervate the whole system of administration. If no such cabal should exist, the mere diversity of views and opinions would alone be sufficient to tincture the exercise of the executive authority with a spirit of habitual feebleness and dilatoriness.
But one of the weightiest objections to a plurality in the Executive, and which lies as much against the last as the first plan, is, that it tends to conceal faults and destroy responsibility.
Responsibility is of two kinds to censure and to punishment. The first is the more important of the two, especially in an elective office. Man, in public trust, will much oftener act in such a manner as to render him unworthy of being any longer trusted, than in such a manner as to make him obnoxious to legal punishment. But the multiplication of the Executive adds to the difficulty of detection in either case. It often becomes impossible, amidst mutual accusations, to determine on whom the blame or the punishment of a pernicious measure, or series of pernicious measures, ought really to fall. It is shifted from one to another with so much dexterity, and under such plausible appearances, that the public opinion is left in suspense about the real author. The circumstances which may have led to any national miscarriage or misfortune are sometimes so complicated that, where there are a number of actors who may have had different degrees and kinds of agency, though we may clearly see upon the whole that there has been mismanagement, yet it may be impracticable to pronounce to whose account the evil which may have been incurred is truly chargeable.
"I was overruled by my council. The council were so divided in their opinions that it was impossible to obtain any better resolution on the point." These and similar pretexts are constantly at hand, whether true or false. And who is there that will either take the trouble or incur the odium, of a strict scrutiny into the secret springs of the transaction? Should there be found a citizen zealous enough to undertake the unpromising task, if there happen to be collusion between the parties concerned, how easy it is to clothe the circumstances with so much ambiguity, as to render it uncertain what was the precise conduct of any of those parties?
In the single instance in which the governor of this State is coupled with a council that is, in the appointment to offices, we have seen the mischiefs of it in the view now under consideration. Scandalous appointments to important offices have been made. Some cases, indeed, have been so flagrant that ALL PARTIES have agreed in the impropriety of the thing. When inquiry has been made, the blame has been laid by the governor on the members of the council, who, on their part, have charged it upon his nomination; while the people remain altogether at a loss to determine, by whose influence their interests have been committed to hands so unqualified and so manifestly improper. In tenderness to individuals, I forbear to descend to particulars.
It is evident from these considerations, that the plurality of the Executive tends to deprive the people of the two greatest securities they can have for the faithful exercise of any delegated power, first, the restraints of public opinion, which lose their efficacy, as well on account of the division of the censure attendant on bad measures among a number, as on account of the uncertainty on whom it ought to fall; and, secondly, the opportunity of discovering with facility and clearness the misconduct of the persons they trust, in order either to their removal from office or to their actual punishment in cases which admit of it.
In England, the king is a perpetual magistrate; and it is a maxim which has obtained for the sake of the public peace, that he is unaccountable for his administration, and his person sacred. Nothing, therefore, can be wiser in that kingdom, than to annex to the king a constitutional council, who may be responsible to the nation for the advice they give. Without this, there would be no responsibility whatever in the executive department an idea inadmissible in a free government. But even there the king is not bound by the resolutions of his council, though they are answerable for the advice they give. He is the absolute master of his own conduct in the exercise of his office, and may observe or disregard the counsel given to him at his sole discretion.
But in a republic, where every magistrate ought to be personally responsible for his behavior in office the reason which in the British Constitution dictates the propriety of a council, not only ceases to apply, but turns against the institution. In the monarchy of Great Britain, it furnishes a substitute for the prohibited responsibility of the chief magistrate, which serves in some degree as a hostage to the national justice for his good behavior. In the American republic, it would serve to destroy, or would greatly diminish, the intended and necessary responsibility of the Chief Magistrate himself.
The idea of a council to the Executive, which has so generally obtained in the State constitutions, has been derived from that maxim of republican jealousy which considers power as safer in the hands of a number of men than of a single man. If the maxim should be admitted to be applicable to the case, I should contend that the advantage on that side would not counterbalance the numerous disadvantages on the opposite side. But I do not think the rule at all applicable to the executive power. I clearly concur in opinion, in this particular, with a writer whom the celebrated Junius pronounces to be "deep, solid, and ingenious," that "the executive power is more easily confined when it is ONE" [2]; that it is far more safe there should be a single object for the jealousy and watchfulness of the people; and, in a word, that all multiplication of the Executive is rather dangerous than friendly to liberty.
A little consideration will satisfy us, that the species of security sought for in the multiplication of the Executive, is attainable. Numbers must be so great as to render combination difficult, or they are rather a source of danger than of security. The united credit and influence of several individuals must be more formidable to liberty, than the credit and influence of either of them separately. When power, therefore, is placed in the hands of so small a number of men, as to admit of their interests and views being easily combined in a common enterprise, by an artful leader, it becomes more liable to abuse, and more dangerous when abused, than if it be lodged in the hands of one man; who, from the very circumstance of his being alone, will be more narrowly watched and more readily suspected, and who cannot unite so great a mass of influence as when he is associated with others. The Decemvirs of Rome, whose name denotes their number [3], were more to be dreaded in their usurpation than any ONE of them would have been. No person would think of proposing an Executive much more numerous than that body; from six to a dozen have been suggested for the number of the council. The extreme of these numbers, is not too great for an easy combination; and from such a combination America would have more to fear, than from the ambition of any single individual. A council to a magistrate, who is himself responsible for what he does, are generally nothing better than a clog upon his good intentions, are often the instruments and accomplices of his bad and are almost always a cloak to his faults.
I forbear to dwell upon the subject of expense; though it be evident that if the council should be numerous enough to answer the principal end aimed at by the institution, the salaries of the members, who must be drawn from their homes to reside at the seat of government, would form an item in the catalogue of public expenditures too serious to be incurred for an object of equivocal utility. I will only add that, prior to the appearance of the Constitution, I rarely met with an intelligent man from any of the States, who did not admit, as the result of experience, that the UNITY of the executive of this State was one of the best of the distinguishing features of our constitution.
1. New York has no council except for the single purpose of appointing to offices; New Jersey has a council whom the governor may consult. But I think, from the terms of the constitution, their resolutions do not bind him.
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Sometimes it feels like everything that should be said about President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney has already been said.
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Sometimes you can say more about someone by not really talking about the person, but talking about something else. My love is like a red red rose, Robert Burns wrote. He is a feather in the wind, Led Zeppelin sang.
Politicians occasionally mix in similes with smiles. Onetime presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty said Obama "is like a manure spreader in a windstorm." And Romney has been called a pinata, a metronome and the Trojan Horse.
Media people do it, too. Remember when Barbara Walters asked actress Katharine Hepburn: "If you were a tree, what kind would you be?" That was back in 1981. At the time it seemed like a postmodern interview question.
Now, decades later, we are post-postmodern, and the fresher, cleaner question is: What type of tree do you think Obama and Romney would be? Or building? Or pastry, wine, comic-strip character?
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If Mitt Romney were a tree, says certified arborist Peter Jenkins, he would be a honey locust — ferocious and spiky. The honey locust is considered by many ranchers and farmers to be an invasive tree, "because it takes over grasses where horses and cattle graze."
Obama, on the other hand, would be a tulip poplar — "the tallest hardwood species on the east side of the Mississippi River; it has a long life span and its trunk is strong."
Jenkins, who runs a tree-care service in Atlanta, says he has a 125-foot-tall tulip poplar in his yard. He calls it "Obama the Tree" because it was once covered in English ivy, "which made me think of the mess that Obama was facing when he first took office. The ivy had to be carefully removed or you'd kill the tree," Jenkins says. "True story."
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Mitt Romney is a croissant, says pastry chef Jenni Field of Garner, N.C. "When you make it, you fold it, roll it and turn it repeatedly, keeping all the edges nice and square, like paper. That could fit in a binder."
Obama, says Field, who blogs about desserts at Pastry Chef Online, is a red velvet cake. "While people have very set opinions about what makes an 'authentic' red velvet cake," she says, "even folks that don't like it can't deny that it's a quintessentially American cake with a very loyal following."
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If the president were a building, according to architect Bill Hutchins of Takoma Park, Md., Obama would most likely be the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Like the unusual structure of stone, glass and titanium, Hutchins says, the president "is full of promise. But does his interior life have the fortitude to allow him to live up to his potential?"
And Romney? "Fort Knox," says Hutchins, principal architect in the collaborative Helicon Works. "He stands for money."
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Romney "is, without question, an oaky, special-reserve-bottled California cabernet sauvignon," says wine lover Peter Ward, creator of the Boston-based blog Corkshrewd. "He has a high pedigree and is backed by bold promises. He works well with a nice steak but might overpower a more common dinner."
The president "is an Argentine Malbec," Ward says. Four years ago, the Malbec was very popular and "a mainstay" with its fans. But today the Malbec is often skipped over in favor of other choices on the wine list.
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When it comes to comparing the candidates to comic-strip characters, Romney is the Bad Boss in Dilbert. "That captures the cluelessness," says Gene Weingarten, a Washington Post humor columnist, Pulitzer Prize-winning feature writer and a creator of the daily comic strip Barney & Clyde. "But you have to add in some Sherman the shark of Sherman's Lagoon. Utterly entitled: Wants to eat everyone; too out of it to understand that others find this cold and heartless."
And Obama, Weingarten says, is Jughead Jones from Archie comics — "cool, unflappable; existentially disconnected from the passions of ordinary men."
Now. We invite you to play along as well; add your own candidate metaphors in the comments section below.
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