By Kevin Rex Heine, Section News
Posted on Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 03:57:06 PM EST
Tags: U.S. Constitution, President, Vice President, Senate, House of Representatives, SCOTUS, federal incompetence, federal irresponsibility, federal mismanagement (all tags)
Charley Reese is a retired syndicated columnist (via King Features) who worked for the Orlando Sentinel from 1971 to 2001. On March 7, 1985, he wrote a column entitled, "Looking For Someone To Blame? Congress Is A Good Place To Start." This was a slightly updated version of his "Just 546 people to blame for U.S. errors," which was published on July 17, 1983, in the Elyria, Ohio, Chronicle-Telegram. The column has been republished multiple times since then (notably in 1995 and in 2008), always with minor updating, and usually under the title "The 545 People Responsible for America's Woes," but with no change to the core point.
What follows is my best effort to effectively blend the most widely circulated versions of the original article; I only hope that I do justice to the original work.
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