At long last, Alberto Gonzales has resigned as Attorney General. Like Senor Rummy before him, the administration has once again exceeded our (admittedly high) expectations in its inability to deal with political realities for months on end. As demonstrated in our earlier postings, Project Democracy (1-3), this combination of audacity and incompetence is nothing new, but never before has it been so out in the open and on such a large scale. Which brings us to our central thesis for the reasons behind the abysmal failure of the “Neo-Incompetents” and the unprecedented damage they have done to the US reputation in the world: Pride and Loyalty have run rampant over any form of job performance. This approach is best summed up in six words: Harriet Meiers as Supreme Court Justice.
Of course, Alberto was high on that list as well...
(Editor's Note-- the plural form of Attorney General is “Attorneys General,” rather than “Attorney Generals”; we used to have a problem with that, but that was before the terms of Messrs. Ashcroft & Gonzales, neither of which we would want to have giving any sort of orders to troops)
For our next president, above all, we are looking for somebody who is not afraid to change course and admit mistakes. Most of the inane decisions made by administrations past were made in the cloud of blind loyalty. Look at RFK’s attempts to take out Fidel in order to make up for his brother’s failure in the Bay o’ Pigs. Dubya’s to both finish what his father started, and to avenge his attempted whacking. Carrying such baggage means that the agenda is no longer your own. As previously noted, this ties into our fears of a Hillary presidency as well: we fear she may do something like outlaw blue dresses (or, at least, those with polka dots).
Call us paranoid, but our biggest fear is that this type of blind obedience, taken to its most extreme form, could morph into martial law. Which brings us to Rudolph Giuliani. We are intrigued by the man, and want to give him a fair shake, but here’s something about that second syllable of his first name that makes us a bit uncomfortable.
As for Rapmaster Rove, we can’t get as excited over his departure, as we are sure that he is still working behind the scenes (the whole “official” rationale of “devoting more time to his family” rings more hollow than usual, especially since his only son has just gone off to college).
