Quote Originally Posted by Brian K View Post
I understand your concern, Jock, but the analog of a clan chief in this case would be Governor Paterson. Right now the poor man can't seem to please anyone - he can't even get our legislature to approve a budget that's already 2 months overdue. In this case some sort of committee process may actually be more efficient

Regards,

Brian
The only difference that I can see is that the Clan Chief only had to please himself and to heck with everyone else. At times, that does speed up the decision making more than somewhat!