I guess it was quite a while ago that a book called The Peter Principle was a major bestseller. It presented something that you can call an explanation for the breakdown of everything, including the fall of the Roman Empire, and it seems to be at work right now within the democrat party.
In a nutshell, the Peter Principle states that people will be promoted to one level ABOVE their competence. That is, suppose you're a terrific shipping clerk. So the shipping manager retires and you get promoted to his position. Where you're a toad out of water, have no idea what to do, and make a mess out of everything. So you don't get any further promotions and the shipping function goes down the tubes. Yet the guy who promoted you doesn't want to admit he made a mistake...
If I recall correctly, such a situation calls for "being kicked upstairs." That is, being moved out of an important job where you really have to produce something to some in-name-only post in the executive suite. Until you finally figure it out and, if you have any honor, voluntarily resign, red-faced and humble beneath your enthusiasm for your extended Florida vacation.
We have a president who's a great campaigner. Not only a great campaigner, but a great and far-thinking political strategist. He's really good at winning elections. Creating crises that he dumps in other peoples' laps, and then if a solution is forthcoming, scampers like a spoiled lap dog to the microphone to claim the credit. The only problem, he's entirely incompetent at governing. He's been promoted w-a-a-a-a-y beyond his level of competence. He doesn't know how to manage anything. He's incapable of making decisions. He doesn't know how to accept responsibility.
Could say something similar might apply to Harry Reid, but he's just such an all-around dolt and blockhead I can't imagine him succeeding at anything but the US Senate. I can't even imagine Harry Reid campaigning. I mean, he can't talk without mumbling and slurring. Apparently he hasn't even mastered the teleprompter, preferring to read jotted, incoherent gibberish from 3"x5" index cards cribbed in his sweaty palms. I really think he should be checked for Alzheimer's or possibly a stroke. I'm perfectly serious about that. He doesn't seem to be "all there."
Pazzo Pelosi is just a bubblehead. Daddy's little girl. Hey, you folks in Maryland, Daddy's long dead. You can stop paying tribute now, unless some kind of goon squad still survives and is holding your families hostage. Yeah, I am referring to Steny Hoyer and that painfully slick Von Holland dude. First among peers, Pazzo leads the pack of the entirely empty-headed. A plastic face and no brain. She must, however, throw terrific wine and cheese collectives for her San Francisco constituency, pretending to be Old Money from New England, laughing at un-funny "insider" jokes and oh so concerned about those unwashed masses. Try to stand next to the guy from Berkeley.
Then we have Tim Geithner. Truth be told, I also have trouble with Turbo Tax. But then, no one in their wildest dreams would ever consider me for US Treasurer. One thing I really can't stand about Geithner is that he does that Clinton thing with his hand, waving his right hand around in a closed fist, thumb on top, like he's shaking up a bottle of Pepsi. I suppose Clinton does that because it's less rude than pointing. No idea why Geithner does it. Maybe in the same way that all the pols copied JFK's hair style for a couple decades, hoping the glamor would rub off. Geithner kinda reminds me of a hopelessly nerdly type. I was surprised to read somewhere that he's actually married. He probably relies on his wife to find them bridge partners and lets her do all the talking.
Author Mark Levin, who also has an excellent radio show, calls these people the president's "freak show." Yeah. "There! I said it!"
Not one among them worth "a pitcher full of warm spit," to borrow a term from a former vice president, Cactus Jack somebody.
And on the other side of the aisle? Well, there's the old, experienced honchos, and while I did kind of like Mitch McConnell for a time, I'm beginning to wonder about his competence after he suggested that congress, as a "fall-back position," simply abdicate its Constitutional power over the US budget. Yeah, what the hell, Mitch, just let the Comrade do whatever he wants, spend as much as he likes. McConnell would, thereby, remain blameless. And the country would go to hell in handbasket, but who gives a damn about that? I mean, is that even Constitutional? I mean, can congress actually transfer its power to another branch of government? What would Madison do?
I actually think the longer-serving or Old Guard Republicans are just as befuddled by the Tea Party folks as NBC and Slate "journalists" are. I mean, the Old Guard Republicans, like the dems, were pretty much used to behaving as though the Constitution was just a moderately amusing historical artifact, safely squirreled away in a vault in the Smithsonian. Now they're actually being called upon to read the damn thing and take it seriously. What the heck is going on here? Take away the earmarks and they're totally adrift. (Job description is actually IN the Constitution, people.)
Overall, I do believe the Comrade has promoted one more crisis than he can handle. He forgets, like all dictators, that ultimately it's the great mass of citizens that determine what kind of government they have. Or don't have. Which is exactly why marxism has never worked anywhere, ever. You can murder and incarcerate trouble-makers for a while, but eventually everyone just gets really sick of it. And it surely can't work in the USA. I mean most citizens look at what's going on in Washington and asking, "What the hell are they thinking?"
Know what an oxymoron is? It's a contradiction in terms. Liberals like to give as an example "military intelligence" In place of that, I'd like to suggest the example "government accountability."
We're going to need a whole big bunch of new candidates in 2012.
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