Back in the day, kings would take off someones head off if they were mad about a matter. If nothing else, it just made them feel better.
Things haven't changed much since democracies replaced kingdoms. The rulers -- sometimes that's us, the people, and sometimes it's Congress -- still look for a head to lop off when something goes wrong.
Latest head to roll: that of Eric Shinseki, secretary of veterans affairs. I don't know how many congress members called for his firing, but it was a lot.
The tradition of firing someone when they weren't directly at fault, though they headed the agency, is a little misguided. In this case, I have to wonder but what Shinseki wasn't as good a person as could be found to clean up the problem.
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