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YOUR FIRED

I can remember when getting fired was a probable event in public life. Now, the process of termination has been reduced to a joke; a reality teevee show. It would appear that incompetence or failure to perform are no longer grounds for ending employment; the worse you do, the longer you get to do it. Look at George Tenet. Look at some of the neo-con clowns running down the Iraq mess. Wolfowitz; referred to, in something I read, as the intellectual father of the Iraq campaign. Holy shit. He is still in there stirring the pot! Fire the stupid bastard!

I have a theory! Here it is. Ready? Firing people, or even nicely asking them to resign, has passed out of favor because once you start dumping the incompetents there will be no stopping it; all the guys who currently regard the world as their private playground would be gone. If you dump the Wolf, then you have to let go of Rummy. With Rummy gone, you would have to move along to the other egoists and idealogues who see nothing wrong in killing young men for an ultimately failed goal. There is no way to win in Iraq. Not the way we are going.

Better than a theory, I have an IDEA! It is not new though. Here it is. Stand back! Watch out now: Let's start at the top. Let's dump the head incomp and his handler; the guy with the halfsmile. Fire them. There is no time to impeach so we will just have to wait until next January for the Demo-inauguration. With buscheny gone, the house of cards will collapse. That, of course, would leave Tenet standing; he is not technically a part of the electoral process. Same with Mueller and the rest of the cozy bureaucrats who have become a part of the bush family apparatchik. For them, lets just have a general roundup. Get them into a room and tell them that there has been a management decision to dump every last one of them. "Clean out your desk. You got until 5 PM to clear the premises on your own power". Then promote from the organization. Get some pros who knows. You could not do worse.

Thus endeth today's simpleminded lesson for government renewal.