Losing Jordan has left the Clippers with two superstars in Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, a handful of useful but flawed supporting players and absolutely no financial wiggle room to make any major improvements.
Other costly new proposals include a reform of the flawed farm support program, the president's energy plan and assistance to those without health insurance.
But somewhere in the muck of the answers is a cynical politician and flawed human, supported by a staff and structure that chose to see instead an electable asset with a bright smile and perfect hair.
The other studies that do exist, while flawed, seem to support twice-a-day brushing.
Congressional leaders, he says, use earmarks as bribes to get the lower ranks to support flawed spending proposals.All this makes earmarks an extremely useful if unseemly tool for the wheelers and dealers in Congress, which presumably explains why they have endured despite decades of complaints and denunciations.
The U.S. government is relying on flawed science to support a proposal to lift endangered species protections for gray wolves in the continental United States.
As the subcommittee chairman Sen. Claire McCaskill noted, "For too many years now the federal government has relied on assumptions and flawed studies to support those assumptions.
Israel has been a participant in this game and President Bush bought into this flawed policy, uncritically supporting Israel.
A month before the 2010 elections, 45 members of the U.S. Congress warned Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that supporting flawed elections "will come back to haunt the international community" by generating unrest and threatening the implementation of earthquake reconstruction projects.
To seal the deal with Mr. Cuomo, legislative leaders have offered to support a flawed constitutional amendment they claim would reform things in time for the 2022 election.
