Posted by
Old Retired Fart on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:10:37 PM
After sitting around watching Obama's cabinet picks self-destruct, listening to stimulus proponents admit that they can't think of a time that deficit spending has ever helped during a recession and myriad other stupid Government tricks, I have finally figured it out. Politicians are just plain stupid. There is no other way to explain their actions, and it even makes sense.
I mean, who else would expend the energy and the capital to get a job with so little reward and so little real power? Once upon a time, we may have been led by the best and brightest, but that time has long since past. Ronald Reagan may have been a throw back, but by and large we have a bunch of folks who have risen to their level of incompetence (to steal from Lawrence Peter).
Now this is a dangerous situation, a German Field Marshall once observed that there are four types of officer, one type is lazy and stupid...they should be left alone because they do no harm, think William Jefferson from Louisiana. A second type is intelligent and industrious, they make the best staff officers because they take care of all of the details...for the life of me, I can't think of an example. The third is lazy and intelligent, and is suited for the highest office. Although I'll catch flack...that is Regan to me, not physically lazy, but not one to waste effort, words, or motion. The final type of officer is stupid and industrious...these must be immediately shot as they do nothing but cause work for everyone else while destroying everything around them. Can anyone say the 111th Congress of the United States?
So there you have it...Remember, never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.