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Who do you want answering the phone at 3:00 a.m.?

October 25, 2008 - 10:00 am - by Roger Kimball
cfbleachers
2008-10-27 01:38:01

Good advisors? Now that comment had me actually chuckle.

I have never seen an advisory team so poorly constructed and the mere thought of what lies ahead is a bone chilling nightmare.

The entire foreign policy tack this wayward and port listing ship is sailing upon, makes no new footprint, it simply follows in the limp-wristed wake of Jimmy Carter. Himself a disaster of epic proportions from which we have yet to fully recover. An appeaser toward our sworn enemies and turncoat to our allies, shaking in his boots at the ferocity of a bunny rabbit. The entire team carries the stench of fear, cowardice and disloyalty to allies.

Joe Biden and John Murtha, two aging simpletons who can’t seem to get out of the way of their own ignorance. When either of these two speak about foreign affairs, it comes out as if in a foreign language, lost in translation. Dumb as a stump and twice as wooden, it makes for the laughs of lowbrow comedy or heaven forbid they ever obtain real power, terrifying high drama.

Tim Mahoney and Barney Frank, apparently believing that it’s not enough of a job to help cook the books at Fannie and Freddie…but to book the hookers as well. It’s nice to be lectured on how to behave as a world citizen by guys who are equal opportunity scandalmakers. Nice work, if you can find it. “We have bankrupted the economy and kept the felonies to a minimum”.

Built a great advisory team, so that should give us confidence at 3:00 AM? I’m terrified at 2:00 in the afternoon, in broad daylight.

No, really…thanks for the chuckle.

A wimp, a simp and a pimp…yep, that’s the ticket.