Aw, come on, what’s wrong with naming the position after a monarchy that ended it’s days in a dirty basement being murdered by commies and then had it’s remains buried unceremoniously in the woods?
Actually, this position could successfully pull our asses out of this mess, if the right person was found. No shit. Lest you think I’m crazy, let me explain. What we need is someone in the job who has sense enough to know that we’re in one fucked up mess, that the Chimp-in-Chief is an idiot, and everyone under the czar is more loyal to him than they are to Shrub. He could then meet with the critical people privately, come up with a solution, and then make damn sure Shrub’s kept out of the loop! Who that person would be, I’ve no idea, but then again, I’ve no idea why people are so loyal to the current CiC.
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were begining to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
If we’re going to look back to classical history, how about we hire somebody for a useful job? I’m thinking we’d benefit from a guy standing behind George Bush and whispering “remember, thou art mortal” in his ear.
Nah; Bush would immediately say “Great idea !”, fire him, and replace him with someone who whispered “Remember, God chose YOU to be President !” instead.
Yeah but WWII was a war that involved 15 million troops of ours scattered worldwide and with separate command structures for the services. In addition there was the task of managing the total mobilization of industry, agriculture and transportation to worry about.
In Iraq-Afghanistan we have a restricted area of operations under a unified command (the head of CenCom is a navy admiral, isn’t he?) and no total national mobilization effort.
I don’t believe GW’s management burden can quite be compared to FDR’s.
Can anyone explain what’s going on in Joe Lieberman’s brain? Why has he decided in the last couple of years that this is a great time to jump aboard the Bush bandwagon? Heck, half the Republicans in the country are trying to distance themselves from the President.
AFAIK, Lieberman’s always been a nutter, he’s just become a high profile nutter since 9/11. As proof of this, I offer you this rant about Lieberman posted by our own Eve, some seven years ago.
And in the interests of clarity: The linked article mentions precisely one Senator who backs the creation of a War Czar, and said Senator (Lieberman) is not a Democrat at all, but an independent.
Too, it specifically mentions that Lieberman and Democrats are not entirely. . .in sync. . .with each other when it comes to the cock up that is Iraq.
And my favorite part is:
Because the conflict not only isn’t “post”, it’s not going to be anytime soon. And I, being the naif that I am, thought that someone had already tried provisional reconstruction. And I seem to recall said provisional reconstruction being even more pissed up than the horrifying clusterfuck that is Iraq.
In short, I’m not entirely certain that Uncle Joe himself knows what’s going on in his brain. Does anyone know if he’s vacationed in Lyme county of late?
No cite for this (and believe me, I’ve looked), but prior to the 2006 election, Lieberman kept saying that Congress needed to subpena the Federal records dealing with FEMA’s clusterfuck in the wake of Katrina. After the election, when he became chairman of the committee which has oversight on such matters, he stated that he wasn’t going to subpena anything related to Katrina, because he felt that it would be more beneficial to be forward looking and not dwell on the past. :rolleyes:
Or you could just put the period after “with each other.” Newsday:
Bolding mine. Collins, of course, is a Republican.
The media have, AFAICT, completely stopped identifying Lieberman as a Dem, which makes sense, since he’s given up almost all pretense of trying to be one. Newsday calls him “a former Democrat turned independent.” That’s about right.
I consider this a downstream benefit of Lamont’s primary win last August.
That was then (when he still needed some Dem votes to win re-election), and this is now, when he’s got six years of freedom to kiss up to Publicans as much as he wants to.
Not that his logic holds. If Congress wants to be “forward-looking” and make sure NOLA and the Gulf coast are rebuilt after Katrina, the first thing they need to do is figure out what’s gone wrong with the first 18 months of the reconstruction effort - how much has been spent already, where it’s gone, what’s been done and what’s still undone so far, and why it seems to have accomplished so little. How do you know whether or not to ‘stay the course’ on Katrina reconstruction, or make modest changes or wholesale changes, unless you know whether what you’ve been doing is working?
He’s fooling nobody who doesn’t want to be fooled. He’s just covering up Bush’s sins, and he likes it that way.
Thank goodness the pretense of his being a Democrat is over and done with.
