It’s quite clear, given the competance and lack of experience that senior managers in the Bush administration have, that what Bush is running is little more than a jobs program for his friends, loved ones, college drinking buddies, friends-of-friends and the like.
If all these well-connected people with fraternity pins, law degrees or pointless MBAs (now there’s a redunancy), the Job Corps is still in existence, in case any of them feel up to doing an honest day’s work.
I’m not against government incompetance, long presidential naps and even longer presidential vacations. I am, however, against expensive government incompetance, a bloated executive branch that can still work while on vacation, and naps that still allow underlings, department heads and various and sundry minions of Potus to do their evil work. George W. Bush is no Calvin Coolidge or Benjamin Harrison — when they napped, work (sic) actually did not get done!
To fill an administration with one’s cronies and party hacks sounds so Breazhnev-era USSR. I was going to compare it to Stalin’s Soviet Union, but that’s not fair, because Stalin actually made underlings pay the price for failure.
3:03 pm on September 8, 2005
