Daily Blague

I am dancing, yes dancing, in the streets over the littered bodies of the right--or in this case, the wrong. To paraphrase Blutto, "Santorum, dead man. Allen, dead man."

But I think the firing of Rummy ill advised because it is so blatantly political and that is the wrong reason to fire your Defense Secretary.

Bush, of course, lied when he said he did not want to inject the firing of Rummy into the election. If Rove for a moment didn't think it would backfire, he'd have been fired weeks ago. But they rightly perceived it would be a sign of weakness and would have hurt them. Bush almost naturally cannot tell the truth.

But firing him yesterday was all wrong. It sent the wrong message, and that is that the whim of the electorate prevails. Bush should have told Pelosi and Reid and the Republican leaders it was done by Thanksgiving, and done it quietly then. This just exacerbates the problems in Iraq.

We have essentially played totally into Iran's hands. Iraq and Saddam were their enemy and they are rid of him, the Shia are rising and they must be doing cheetah flips. We also have not contained North Korea, another example of their failed foreign policy. He needs to fire Condi as well.

I must agree with my learned friend, PPOQ, on this matter. This country does not seem to have any kind of plan but is merely being reactive, like the poor dancing chicken in Chinatown who hops to it when the quarter starts the current flowing through the wires under its feet. We must seem a terrible joke to our friends, let alone our enemies. We are living on borrowed time; as in crime, the bad guys are usually dumber than even the dumbest good guy but depending on this maxim is not good policy - it's not policy at all.