The Obama Administration has it backwards.  In an interview last week on ABC Obama explained that he had erred in not including republicans in the healthcare process.  He explained that decisions had to be made so quickly that they became more concerned with establishing good policy than with the process.  Consider for a moment that Eric Holder in moving the trial of KSM to New York and in another decision, to read the Underwear Bomber his Miranda Rights after only fifty minutes of interrogation was more concerned with process than he was with outcome.  This is backwards.

The best way to achieve good policy in a democratic forum is to include multiple perspectives in the discussion.  Without this you can’t make good policy because good policy is made with the eyes wide open.  On the other hand, the religious adherence to poorly thought out policy cripples the legal system as well as our National Security system when it is a process that is of paramount concern rather than the end result. 

I remarked to friends a week or more ago that this is backwards.  Our justice system should be concerned with determining the truth rather than the religious adherence to a dogmatic process that has become more important than the results of the process.  Does the Underwear Bomber have information that if known might enable us to deliver a crippling blow to Al Qaeda in Yemen or that might save the lives of Americans?  Isn’t this more important than whether the man is tried in criminal court or if he is handed to the military?  Yet Holder is so devoted toward Nirvana which in his mind is the legal system, the process, rather than what is best for the country in the sense of outcome.

The legislative system is just the opposite.  To make good law, good policy, the Congress needs to ensure that all ideas are heard.  To do anything to the contrary disenfranchises those of us who are represented by someone deliberately excluded from the process.  The process should be paramount.  But, it is not.  It was only the outcome that Obama, Reid and Pelosi were concerned about.  They wanted their ideas passed regardless of the aspirations or the ideas that might be brought forward by persons not in their caucus? This adversarial climate in Washington was created by Pelosi and Reid and fostered by Obama because of their rush to get something passed without concern for the process. 

My advice, turn it around America.  Our legal system should be more about results, not process.  Certainly process is important but not to the exclusion of achieving reasonable results.  Our legislative system should be more about process than results because it is through the process that we truly achieve representative government and only through process can we guarantee a chance for good policy.