Easy Work is Hard to Find
You could be excused for thinking "there is no way these people can be this totally incompetent", having our precious troops ( I mean no disrespect, just pointing out the latest fetish) stay in rat infested outpatient clinics, firing eight Federal attorneys all at once for " poor performance", having a lawyer named "scooter". It's the novel Vonnegut couldn't make up. Suddenly deciding direct negotiations with the "Axis of Evil" makes sense, sending Dick Cheney out to pump up the remaining loyal hardcore at the 39th Annual Conservative Action Conference and Cross Burning with this kind of routine:
'Like it or not, the enemy we face in the war on terror has made Iraq the primary front in that war."
There is an implicit if rhetorical question there : Like it? or not?
Then to LAUGHTER and APPLAUSE, Cheney said "To use a popular phrase, this is an inconvenient truth." Har Har You have to picture the malicious grin and little twinkle in his eye. Dick is a trout fisherman and someone has to guide him. A recurring fantasy of mine. It would be easy work, telling him how the coldness of the water was an inconvenient truth. Har har har.
posted by troutsky @ 10:41 PM
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2 Comments:
I agree with CF.
We are itching to bomb them.
I imagine you are both correct and yet I can't help thinking there must be some rational minds over in the State Dept.who have staked their whole careers on this period and who hope to salvage some respect.
I think this highlights the dualistic nature of this period in the weird way the discourse cannot settle the competence question. This is a good counter to my accusation of idiocy: 'Theyve stolen countless billions..theyve installed a regime of spies and torturers at the heart of the state..theyve suborned the military to surrender it's professional responsibilities..theyve carefully presided over the continued destruction of a center of african-americanpopulation...taken over the national labor Relations Board..packed the court system..stolen a presidential election.This is incompetence?"
Philip Green
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