Fair For The Gander (that he’ll probably shoot)
By Mitch Berg
Kevin Ecker subjects the US government to the same “benchmarks” to which Iraqi democracy are currently tied, and finds our bureaucracy sorely wanting.
UPDATE: And now, with the link…
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July 26th, 2007 at 8:36 am
As someone who works in finance, I would like to see all levels of gov’t subject to the same reporting and audit requirements that publically traded companies are held to.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
You recognize the same guy who’s in charge of Iraq also heads the U.S. government, right? Cause it turns out that guy’s not so gifted at running stuff.
July 26th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Nouri Kamel Mohammed Hassan al-Maliki runs the US government? Heh, must of been something to those libs caterwauls of fixed elections, I didn’t even see that name on the ballot in Minnesota.
July 26th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Kinda like saying Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling ran Norway.
July 26th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
AC, shame on you. You left a loophole.
July 26th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
But you’re not comparing Bush to Hitler, right AC?
July 26th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
No, Chad. Hitler didn’t dodge the draft.
July 26th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Heh look, who left this strawman here?
July 26th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
It has traces of greasepaint on it. Strange.
July 26th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Kinda like saying Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling ran Norway.
So you’re saying the current Iraqi government is analogous to the Quislings? Which’d make us the Germans, and the Al Quaeda thugs who saw off heads and cut off faces with piano wire are the moral equivalent of the Milorg?
Clown is really Cindy Sheehan!
July 26th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
As someone with relatives and several neighborhood children in the military (OK they’re 18, but let me tell ya they left here children), I’d like to see the federal executive branch run like Chuck’s company:
With an expectation of management performance to norms, with level-headed decisions and genuine accountability, no hiding all the data and basis for decisions and protecting your incompetent buddies cause you think its a private company cause your Dad was the Pres before you and you were so poorly educated you think you’re the owner. And instead failing to meet your own criteria, and when caught saying f.u. to the stockholders. Then pursuing a vision all your advisors and consultants and even your Dad’s old business captains are telling you is just plain whacked.
If only the model of capitalism would be enforced, as if this were the post-enlightenment period after all.
Mitch, forget Quisling (and you improper use of the plural) and think of the 14th century Hohenzollern. Where would you be today if those Georges had behaved like our own?
July 27th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Mitch queried: “So you’re saying the current Iraqi government is analogous to the Quislings?”
Angryclown is saying that anyone (Loren) who thinks Nouri al-Maliki, and not George Dubya Bush, is responsible for the mess in Iraq is a raving idiot.
Don’t even think about corporate-style transparency or accountability, coldeye. Bush and Cheney in the corporate world were a disaster for their partners and shareholders.
July 27th, 2007 at 6:46 am
“With an expectation of management performance to norms,”
Vague statement #1. Whose norms?
“with level-headed decisions and genuine accountability,”
Vague staement #2. Who determines whether a decision was level-headed? Accountable to whom? (notice correct use of “who” as subject and “whom” as object).
“no hiding all the data and basis for decisions and protecting your incompetent buddies cause you think its a private company cause your Dad was the Pres before you and you were so poorly educated you think you’re the owner. ”
Uh-oh, anger driven ranting. There are two undeniable facts stated: “your Dad was the Pres before you” (true) and “you were so poorly educated you think you’re the owner.” (false. Bush has an MBA from Yale).
“And instead failing to meet your own criteria, and when caught saying f.u. to the stockholders.”
The rant has lapsed into the incomprehensible, almost random pejoratives of a severe case of BDS
“Then pursuing a vision all your advisors and consultants and even your Dad’s old business captains are telling you is just plain whacked.”
I think this refers to the Iraq War, but since Cheney, Wolfowitz, powell, Feith, Abrams, Tenet, Rumsfield, and Rice all supported the Iraq invsasion, I must be wrong.
” If only the model of capitalism would be enforced, as if this were the post-enlightenment period after all.”
Join me, fellow citizens, as I march on Washington to enforce the model of Capitalism! Do not we have the obligation, in this, the Post-enlightenent period, to reinstate the rule of the 14th century Hohenzollerns?
July 27th, 2007 at 8:46 am
AC, you didn’t say “responsible for Iraq”, you said “in charge”. Don’t move the goal posts and then wave flages of mental acuity.
July 27th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Mitch, forget Quisling (and you improper use of the plural)
Ah. He wants to argue language with the English major and linguistics geek who’s been writing for a living his whole life. This oughtta be good..
Cold: Arguing grammar is tiresome, especially against an unarmed opponent. Quisling was the leader of the Nazi collaborators in Norway; his followers were popularly called “Quislings”, both in English and in the native Norwegian form (“Quislinge“, if I remember correctly, although I admit I don’t speak Norwegian. Yet.)
and think of the 14th century Hohenzollern. Where would you be today if those Georges had behaved like our own?
Probably overwhelmed by an anachronism so far out of my personal experience that I’d shake my head in confusion and walk back to my thatched hovel. Their Georges would have been elected to office, and would have set the crown aside after eight years of rule, to a democratically-elected successor, with no wars, royal intermarriages, intra-court murders or other such shenanigans – merely a vote on a ballot which I, as a peasant, couldn’t read and would have no idea what to do with.
Next dumb question!
July 27th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Coldeye==pb
July 27th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Coldeye might equal PB on an intellectual level, but I don’t think they’re the same person … PB could never demonstrate that level of BDS in so short a space.
July 27th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
The length of the comment is wrong, but I bet he’ll build up to that. The rest of it fits, esp. the weird usage and construction.
“expectation of management performance to norms”?
“If only the model of capitalism would be enforced”?
And:
“think of the 14th century Hohenzollern. Where would you be today if those Georges had behaved like our own?”
Like our own Georges? GHW Bush _and_ GW Bush? Or just the latter? What 14th Century Hohenzollern Georges? I think he just picked the name Hohenzollern out of a book and stuck the ‘George’ in there to try and make a link to W.
July 27th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
AC left a loophole and moved the goalposts?
You’re slipping, my greasepainted friend.