He really is paralyzed. A deer in the headlights of history. There is no thinking going on up there--just desperate, panicked reactions to the consequences of his own earlier blunders. Stuck like a tape-loop, mumbling the same hackneyed lines. What a pathetic loser.

And God have mercy on our nation, stuck with these incompetent, immoral, jackasses in power.

Posted by: oh deer at May 9, 2006 04:56 AM | Permalink to this comment

Wait, didn't you hear: he caught that great big bass in his stocked pond at his little ranch. This Presidency is a great success, so long as you use the correct yardstick.

Posted by: CharleyCarp at May 9, 2006 05:09 AM | Permalink to this comment

Do his speech writers work in crayons. W has a history of repeating (bits and full text) speeches, yet a spoof news show is the source.

Posted by: Rudi at May 9, 2006 03:15 PM | Permalink to this comment

Come on, folks, pay attention. These are different critical moment's in our nation's history. To paraphrase Orson Welles, "No DCI before his time."

Posted by: steven Donegal at May 9, 2006 04:02 PM | Permalink to this comment

Greg,

why does it matter which agency runs our human intelligence? Why not have DoD run everything? Rumsfield or any one character is long-term irrelevant: don't build structures based on who currently inhabits them. Why, in fact, does it matter who does our human spying?

Usually, I'd say something like: it matters because DoD has the most institutitonal incentives to be militaristic, jingoist, non-transparent, unethical, bloated, inefficient, and fumbling.

But any agency can be broken to a tool of the President's will. The president wants his agencies to be miltaristic, opaque, and knee-jerk supportive of whatever stupid shit he says. Therefore, it doesn't really matter who runs our human intel.

The best thing you could do for the entire defense community is to fire every other non-soldier, literally at random, and appoint three people to radically simplify the whole system. Everyone left would be lean and hungry, no doubt about it.

Posted by: glasnost at May 10, 2006 05:48 AM | Permalink to this comment

Rudi: Yes, Boy George & his speechwriters keep repeating themsevles and apparently have no original thoughts. How many times, have they told us, "we have turned the corner in Iraq"? I have lost count, but its been enough times that the US in Iraq has either 1) circuled the block several times or is in a maze with a countless number of corners! I believe the latter is the more likely!

Posted by: David All at May 10, 2006 03:32 PM | Permalink to this comment