Incompetence, Thy Name is BushCo
Jan 25th, 2006 at 10:12 am by Susie
How could a president get these things so wrong? Incompetence may describe this presidency, but it doesn’t explain it. For that, historians may need to turn to the seven deadly sins: to greed, in understanding why Bush entrusted his new drug entitlement to a financial mainstay of modern Republicanism. To sloth, in understanding why Incurious George has repeatedly ignored the work of experts whose advice runs counter to his desires.
More and more, the key question for this administration is that of the great American sage, Casey Stengel: Can’t anybody here play this game?
There’s nothing wrong here. What we have a hard time believing is that these things are happening in this incompetent way are exactly what was intended.
Their goal is to wreck the regulatory powers of the government, plunder the treasury, eliminate taxes, disconnect the rich and the corporations from social responsibility and to convnce the mass of people that they should expect nothing from their government.
Given that goal, what’s the problem?
The purpose of government, as the sophists of ancient Athens said, is to help your friends and hurt your enemies.