Napoleon's Idiot
alt.politics.bush
Legend has it that Napoleon kept an Idiot on his staff. Before he
issued any command, he passed it to the Idiot and, if the Idiot's
understanding of the language was congruent with the action Napoleon
required of his soldiers, he would issue it to his generals. It was a
way of refining his communication.
The relation of Napoleon to his Idiot is exactly the same as the
relationship of Bill Clinton to Dick Morris. Dick Morris thinks like
Rush Limbaugh and John Roberts and all the stupid white male Bush
voters who make up the 28% who continue to give Bushie high approval
ratings for job performance. They are all hard wired to think this
way. Bill Clinton needed someone like Dick Morris around him in order
to meet Newt Gingrich in political conflict. Neither Clinton thinks
like Dick Morris or Rush Limbaugh. This is one of those things
Limbaugh gets exactly correct: his particular genius of being able to
think like he does is a gift on loan from God. In my experience, God
has a sense of the absurd that verges on the burlesque, if the Book of
Job is any indicator. The thing to always remember about Clinton is
that he never included Morris as part of his government. And the
singular difference between Clinton's administration and Bushie's
administration is that the people who have been running Bushie's
government and the people who are running the Newt Gingrich wing of
the GOP that just killed immigration reform all think like Dick
Morris.
If I was Ted Kennedy and Dick Lugar, I would focus on what the budget
would look like if the Immigration and Naturalization Service was
given the manpower it needs at the GS-7 level to bring all these
undocumented migrants into status, as provided by the 1986 Amnesty
Reform, by the end of the decade. The 1986 Amnesty Reform contains 2
parts: administration and enforcement. The administrative side of the
equation has never had the manpower to bring applicants into status in
a timely manner and since Team Bush took over the job, it has ground
to a complete stop. Basically, as part of their asshole doctrine of
achieving smaller government by not providing services, the Bush
administration has been in violation of the law by nonfeasance. It is
a deliberate policy of ignoring the law resulting from the ideological
imperatives of people who think like Dick Morris and William F.
Buckley, Jr, and rests upon the simple expedient that taking all the
money necessary to obey the 1986 Amnesty Reform and using it to
finance tax breaks for people like Dick Cheney's circle of friends at
Haliburton.
But we still have the mechanisms brought into existence with the 1986
Amnesty Reform and it is an orderly and proven method for regularizing
the migration patterns anticipated by Nixon and Carter in order to
leverage this expression of the pursuit of happiness as a capitalist
tool. Why reinvent the wheel? What we got works just fine, but money
talks. Conservatism, as it tends to play out in the federal budget
process, perfectly reflects the Pharaoh's requirement that the Hebrews
make their bricks without straw. In our economic system, cold hard
cash is the straw of the financial structures we employ universally in
our social and political intercourse. Instead of putting cash into
making the 1986 Amnesty Reform work, Bushie has put all his money into
enforcement, because it appeals to his role as the biggest swinging
dick in the wing of the American body politic for which the biggest
swinging dick is an organizing principle of their moral values.
I wouldn't waste any more time on this immigration bill. The people
who defeated Bushie are the Idiots who made him president, in the
first place and, in Congress, Tom Delay's Majority of the Majority,
basically the same people who sustained Bushie's veto of stem cell
research and brought a bill of impeachment to the Senate of the 108th
Congress. The question MoveOn.org and Howard Dean need to answer is:
will the Idiots still determine the defining moral constraint in the
111th Congress as they have been since Newt Gingrich was Speaker.
And that's the truth
Just to make my point, both John Robert's and Anthony Scalia's
reasoning are perfectly example of why Bill Clinton kept Dick Morris
on his payroll: these guys are hard wired to think this way and there
is virtually no reliable strategy for enabling them to experiment with
additional methods of critical thought. I mean, Robert McNamara still
doesn't understand what went wrong. The difference between him and
Dick Cheney is that Cheney thinks things are going according to plan.
And that's the truth.