i have read a number of places about washington's problems with a 'do nothing' congress during the revolutionary war..i am looking for his letters so as to put forth...this useless conflct inside our government has always been present. i did find this:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/George_Washington_in_the_American_Revolutionwhich talks about 'authorizing the army for single years', and 'a bankrupt congress', requiring george to maintain troops by his force of personality and will.
i just went through 'the diaries of george washington' on the national archives pages. missing, conspicously imo, are the years 1776-1780. there is so much crap written, it's difficult to know what he thought of congress conduct during those years. i have read that he complained to them of supplies, financial support, arms, clothing...valley forge-it reminds me of the scandals in the early days of wwII when our troops had summer clothing, and winter conditions...little ammunition.
does one suffer in silence? or does one complain hoping that some reasonable person who gives a damn about troops who defend the nation will actually listen? i never suffered in silence. at some time early on, i realized 'the worst thing these idiots can do to me is fire me. i don't think they have the guts to do it.'. what i have read that george wrote complaining to congress about their lack of support leads me to believe he was more polite than i.
i don't blame commanders one bit for complaining publicly. sometimes, it does get a response. complaining to the half wits in washington d.c. rarely gets anything unless there is money in it for them to act.
as far as this sexual harrassment feeding frenzy, i told someone last week about when i was accused of sexual harassment. i waved at a woman i knew in the hall and said 'hey, x'. a day or two later, i heard from management that she had gone to the eeo office to file sexual harassment charges. i laughed...i had a friend with me as witness.
this woman who tried to file charges...she was married, and a couple years earlier, had tried to get me to agree to marry her if she divorced her husband. i told her, in essence, 'you divorce your husband if you want to. i'm not agreeing to anything. perhaps we'll go out and see if we get along; perhaps we will not...as far as you divorcing your husband, you had best not let anything you think about me be a factor in your decision.'. i promise you...i never touched the b. i listened to her when she talked when i had time to do so. that is all.
and now, i hear this committee of women who have decided to bring down herman cain. we have given women (and perhaps people in general) far too much power...they can make an unsubstantiated charge to all the jackals in the press who will give it national exposure-and even on the internet...and ruin some man's (or even another woman's) life without any proof. this is insane...our society is insane.
