M&M: Mopping and Muckraking
December 7th, 2006The New York Post has amusingly run a cover titled “Surrender Monkeys” in response to the Iraq Study Group’s recommendations, and while the article and design are absurd and in no need of further thought, something came to me.
Am I the only one who thinks it’s odd that Hamilton and Baker were on this commission and the 9/11 Commission? It’s no secret that I think the 9/11 Commission was unnecessary and political, that the men on the panel are no more experts than other people who wouldn’t be in government, and I feel similar toward the Iraq Study Group. I’m with them on many of their recommendations, to be sure, but I’m irritated by the fact that a Political Elite was chosen, as usual, and more than that, I’m angry that outsiders had to have been asked to clean up Bush’s mess. If Bush had done his job right the first time, when we went in, we wouldn’t be in this situation where The Old Guard of Washington is asked to mop up the desert.
But Washington is a place in constant need of mopping. It is always dirty and always will be by nature of politics. Today I stumbled across something interesting and thought I’d share it. It’s a list of all Bush officials that have been in scandals.
Good stuff. Well, bad, but good that it’s documented, giving future historians reason to write what today’s are projecting: that Hoover must move over, and that Bush is the worst ever. I’m nearing that conclusion, too.