Size and waste are not the same. Try not to be so thick.
Yeh, right. In what sense? In the sense that if one is to Pit someone else, self-righteousness is assumed?
Cut the crap.
Shorter Unc: it’s never any better or worse, no matter who’s in charge.
What rot. I’ll just label you an ‘idiot’, and leave it at that.
Guess the advantages of the free market over the command economy you’d justifiably ridicule aren’t that big after all, if Bush-level promoting of fuckups wouldn’t hurt a company that much.
Which I think is BS, by the way. The sort of hiring decisions Bush has made aren’t the sort of thing many companies could survive.
Dude. Politics doesn’t have boardrooms. The ‘board’ is ‘we, the people.’
More “it’s the system and the guys at the bottom that are responsible for everything, and management can’t do a thing about it.”
The Secretary of Defense should be able to tell whether his procurement system is working or not, and if his people can’t at least give a broad outline of why it isn’t working, then they’re fucking idiots.
And if the procurement system’s causing the government to lose billions just in the NSA, let alone the DoD weapons procurement side, then that’s big enough that the SecDef ought to be mentioning it to the President, no?
Gawd, you’re dumb.
OK, you’re saying that Bush is helpless, unless and until he can get a whole new procurement system through Congress that would miraculously fix everything.
Close enough.
Just like I said: you’re saying the buck stops with the last guy who’s hands-on involved in decisions.
Darn tootin’, excepting the parenthetical, of course. Because while Congress isn’t a complete rubber stamp with respect to executive appointments, there’s a very strong predisposition that the executive should be allowed to pick his own team. Of the thousands of exectutive appointments since WWII that have had to pass Congressional muster, how many have been denied? Damned few.
This thread, AFAIAC, is completely about Bush trying to put Hayden in charge of the CIA after having established his impressive fuckup track record at NSA.
If you want to argue my supposed ‘larger bitch’ with me, don’t bother. You’re arguing with something you read in between the lines of my OP, that wasn’t there at all.
You’re getting pretty knee-jerk, you know? You just expect to find stuff in my posts, so you get riled about it, even though you’re the only one who can see it.
Right. But when one advocates an increase in the size of something that’s inherently wasteful and incompetent - as government is by your own statement - then they’re advocating additional waste and incompetence. Try not to use such thin interpretations.
In the sense that your OP is about fiscal mismanagement, you dipshit. By tossing CAGW into the mix, I was trying to show that I abhor the fiscal idiocies of the governemnt.
Still don’t get it do you? I’d think that the argument I’ve made repeatedly would have snagged on your pointy little head at least once by now. Guess not; it just keeps sailing cleanly over the damned thing. That argument being, that if you really wanna solve a problem, attack it at its root cause. The idiot left, such as yourself, are doing nothing more than tilting at windmills.
As far as you can tell only because you wrote the damned thing. Seems to me if . . .
Ah fuck it. You’re a total fucking useless pawn of your pointy-headed prejudices and to keep typing at you is even more fucking useless.
I have a feeling I already know which two distinctly different but occasionally overlapping concepts you’ve confused, but I’d like to hear it from you.
So any OP about fiscal mismanagement is ‘self-righteous’?
You are so losing it.
You know, I’m all for attacking the root causes of problems. But saying nothing can be done without dealing with root causes going back to Jefferson is something entirely different.
And the evidence you’ve provided that that is so…well, you’ve really just asserted it. Meanwhile, FEMA went from a turkey farm under Bush the Elder, to a first-class outfit under Clinton, to an outfit so bad under Bush that people are saying it should just be junked. That belies your theory of executive helplessness in the face of Jefferson’s legacy and the bureaucrats.
‘AFAIAC’ =/= ‘AFAICT’.
Yeah. My ‘prejudice’ is the generally accepted belief that executives can and generally do make a big difference in the organizations they run.
People with lefty prejudices like that shouldn’t be allowed to run free, let alone vote. :rolleyes:
I’d say ‘nice knowing you’ except for the obvious.
(it started in post 19 in this thread only. I just tried italicizing the word “mind” in this post - now watch, just like the baby stops crying 10 seconds after you call the parents to come home, this one will be normal)>