Friday, April 09, 2004
Condi to U.S.: "Hey, Shit Happens!"
Thursday proved to be Self-Deception Day. Or perhaps, Self-Destruction Day.0 comments
Yesterday offered us two extremely leaden, sodden attempts at fending off an overwhelming, stark and deadly reality:
In Testimony to 9/11 Panel, Rice Sticks to the Script
and
'THE ALAMO': A Mythic Last Stand Stripped of Fantasy.
I guess the titles might almost be interchangeable.
Just as the creative types are stuck dragging this dead-elephant movie around with them, so is the Bush administration left dragging around the party line that they are somehow competant and on top of situations as they arise.
It makes me sad to see that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice maintains the fantasy that her office had a basic core competancy concerning world events after the turn of this new century.
Yesterday, everyone, it seems, was in over their heads.
Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Barret Travis, despite their best efforts, still were not going to get out of the Alamo alive.
Many people at Disney, and many of the creative types connected with 'The Alamo' find their careers in tatters; some careers may actually be dead.
And yesterday, Dr. Rice showed just how astonishingly ill-suited for her job she has been. She starkly had no answers. She showed no remorse for her office's deadly failures. She clearly stated that she still had no other ideas as to what to do, other than what had already been done. IF there was a problem, she insisted throughout her testimony, it was obviously with "The System"—or perhaps, of course, with the FBI—and "Gosh, y'know? What's a girl to do? (smile, blink, blink)" But, most damagingly, she showed that she fully had no understanding that there could be an impending problem, after countless briefings and warnings.
Mostly she showed how in over her head she was—with such deadly consequences.
Instead of being a role model for women everywhere—showing that she was tough, smart and savvy enough to handle the immensely difficult pressures of the second most important job in the world—Dr. Rice has set the struggle to smash the glass ceiling back by uncountable years.
It's now clear that, like the good administration pet that she is, she needed to have her nose rubbed in the ashes of the Pentagon and World Trade Center before she could grasp that she had a problem on her hands.
And in an amazing act of political self-immolation, she bravely trooped before the 9/11 Commission yesterday and gallantly attempted on behalf of the Bush administration to prove that the sun does appear to come up in the west.
Of course, the only one more culpable than the incompetant employee is the person who actually gave them the job!
posted by Gotham 11:45 AM
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