lack of emphasis to make real cuts as well as respond to an earlier posting that had a primer on how government pay raises work.
It had nothing to do with health care what so ever. And you can't just apply a course of action to any action one pleases and use it as a go-n-go gage.

The salary decreases and cuts in spending are needed, necessary to curtail the rampant federal spending.
The health care issue is not of the same necessity. Nor is it at the moment clear how it works, how much it costs and the long term effect on the deficit other than the fact it will raise costs and increase the deficit.

To categorize no nonsense actions to freeze wages as "running rough shod" is an inaccurate characterization of a methodology. And perhaps reflects ones lack of understanding where and when to apply what kind of executive aggressive actions.

The same aggressive actions (not running rough shod) applied to the health care fiasco would/could go something like do not pass the bill until such time as it can be explained to the American people just exactly what is in the bill, how much it costs and exactly what is the plan to pay for it. Get it done....what ever it takes. But as we all know it was a back room, ram it through and by the way ignore the masses of the we the people who said they do not want it. That to me fits your misplaced assignation of running rough shod. It also fits the category of running amok!!!!

btk