WRITTEN ON June 12th, 2005 BY John Robert Behrman AND STORED IN Across the Board

The following was prepared for the hearing and counter-hearing involving the “Carter/Baker Commission” to be held at Rice University on 30 June, 2005.

It lacks some of the formal style but it is a “proffer” of testimony I may or may not give before either body.

Actually, I am somewhat skeptical of the value of these rituals, both hearings and counter-hearings. But, with very little functional, much less participatory government, rituals (and blogs) are about all that is left of de Tocqueville’s or, for that matter, Andy Jackson’s Democracy in America

http://invigilator.blogspot.com/2005/06/short-list-of-election-related.html