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| An irregularly updated journal of my Fair and Balanced thoughts, reactions, opinions, biases, outrages, strategies, victories, and commentary. Whatever it is, it's much too subtle to be considered a parody... |
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February 09, 2004
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 Somewhat belatedly, I figured out what my reaction to Josh Marshall's concern about the scope of Bush's intelligence investigation was.
Josh thinks, and I concur, that the mission of this group is too limited and that it's subject to too much political CYA by the very agencies it's supposed to be investigating.
It was when I read this:Anything the White House did with those CIA analyses, any fisticuffs between the Veep's office and the CIA, anything stovepiped through Doug Feith's operation at the Pentagon, anything that made its way from Chalabi's mumbo-jumbocrats to the the president's speechwriters -- that's all beyond their brief. that I reacted. "Of course Bush doesn't need to investigate that. 'Questions I know the answers to I don't need to ask, right?'" I am a child of the 1980's, remembering 20 year old Calvin and Hobbes lines just happens naturally for me. Someday I'll wish those brain cells were devoted to something else. But it would probably be Cyndi Lauper lyrics, so I guess it's a wash.
I've come to the conclusion that we got what we asked for: an administration being run by Calvin. It all fits: the grades, the ADD symptoms, the adventures of Spaceman Spiff on the desert-planet Iraq II, his imaginary friends in their undisclosed locations, his uncanny ability to rationalize how doing what he wants will really be good for everyone and, of course, the quote in the image.
If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.--Calvin, on shoveling snow.
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| .:Posted by Michael on February 9, 2004 11:38 PM:.
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