But she is not alone since politicians and government officials in all parts of our government continue to say the darndest things, indicating their inability to connect to reality, accept blame for their missteps, or really do not know how to resolve a problem or issue. While the kids on Art Linkletter's TV show long ago were cute and adorable when they said the darndest things, our government officials are the polar opposite of cute and adorable, falling more into the pathetic and useless category.
Thus, to prove the Ms. Wasserman-Schults is not alone, consider some of the recent statements from others within our political class:
- We did a post to this blog on April 8, 2011 entitled, "Could The Mexican Drug Cartels 'Red Dawn' The United States?" It hypothesized whether or not the very powerful and increasingly violent Mexican drug cartels could come over our border and drive up through the center of the country, causing chaos and death as they went.
It was based on the movie "Red Dawn" from several decades ago which had a similar storyline, namely the Russians invade the U.S. and spilt the country in half. This post also referred to an actual World War I strategy of the German Kaiser where he had hoped to ally Germany with Mexico and support a Mexican invasion of the center of the U.S., a strategy that never materialized. This "Red Dawn" post has been one of our most popular posts.
Flash ahead now to last week where U.S. law enforcement uncovered an Iranian plot to blow up the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States in Washington D.C. Apparently, the schemers were going to blow up the ambassador via a bombing at one of his favorite restaurants, a bombing that, if successful, would have resulted in many many deaths and injuries to others. The plot was being put together in Mexico and has brushed up against the potential of Iran allying itself with the lawless and powerful Mexican drug cartels, a similar potential for danger we pointed out back in April.
So what did our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have to say about the plot, as quoted by the Associated Press: "The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador, nobody could make that up, right?"
Well, yeah, we made up something similar right in this post back in April. If we could imagine chaos and potential for terrorism coming out of the lawless drug cartels, are you telling me that the entire State Department under Hilllary could not foresee the same thing? Given that they could not foresee the obvious, it is doubtful they had contingency plans to deal with this scenario.
Thus, we have caught Hillary saying the darndest thing, a prime example of our politicians again not anticipating and planning for potential crises. Out of touch with reality, out of touch with the dangers and issues facing the country, a darn dangerous position to be in.
- History has proven that when an illegal or stupid act is done by a politician, it is usually not the act but the lies after the fact that get the politician in trouble. Attorney General Eric Holder finds himself in that situation today. The ATF organization, that organizationally resides within Holder's Justice Department, operated a severely botched, illegal, and irresponsible gun running sting operation in Mexico called Fast and Furious over the past year or so.
This operation probably broke numerous U.S. Federal laws and probably violated several international treaties on gun running. This is very serious stuff. But Mr. Holder said the darndest thing in front of a Congressional hearing back in May when he clearly stated that he had not known of the operation until a few weeks before the hearing.
But this raises some darn serious issues:
- Are we to believe that such a major operation was not known to the top person in charge, namely Mr. Holder? This was not a one time, small gun sting. This operation moved thousands of high powered, military weapons into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. The only explanation, if this is true, is that Mr. Holder is quite incompetent or he has no control over his own organization.
- But he probably did know what was going on since the Congressional committee investigating Fast and Furious has uncovered emails send to Mr. Holder in 2010. These emails updated him on the operation, almost twelve months before he publicly stated he had just found out about the effort. Those darn pesky emails can be such a pain.
- And finally, in a March interview, President Obama talked about Fast and Furious in a taped interview. Are we to believe that the President, Mr. Holder's boss, knew about Fast and Furious months before Mr. Holder stated he found out? Seems darn improbable.
However, before the legislation even reached the voting stage, Nancy Pelosi was off on a ballistic rant about how this legislation would result in pregnant women being left to die on hospital floors: "Under this bill, when the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor and health care providers do not have to intervene if this bill is passed. It’s just appalling."
Ms. Pelosi stated this orally at a press conference and also stated it in an official press release. However, she apparently did not read the legislation's actual words since it explicitly states exactly what is in the executive order that medical treatment and an abortion cannot be denied to victims or incest and rape or when the life of the mother is in danger.
Just to be sure, I actually downloaded the proposed legislation. About two pages into the bill you can find the words which verify that Ms. Pelosi is completely wrong and that pregnant women will not be left to die on hospital floors. Darn maybe she should have read the bill first before looking like an idiot.
Given that she did not read this bill which is only a handful of pages long before coming off like a fool, it makes you wonder if she ever read the 2,500 page health care reform legislation.
- One of my recent favorite political class statements comes from House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, as reported by Mike Lillis writing for the Hill on October 22, 2011: "The American people have every right to be angry and disappointed at the performance of Congress. Of course, the American people have also elected people with hard stances, so that to some degree, the American people are realizing the results of their votes."
How could we have been so stupid! It is not our politicians' fault that they are incompetent, it is our fault for electing them. It is so obvious. If we had just elected better people to Congress, Congress would perform better.
Mr. Hoyer seems to overlook a few things:
- The political class controls who runs for office so we really never have a real choice who to vote for. We are stuck voting for the same tired candidates that people like Mr. Hoyer put on the ballot.
- If Mr. Hoyer is right and we elect the wrong people to office, maybe they should resign for the good of the country or better yet, maybe Congress should impose term limits on themselves to make sure incompetent people do not stay in Congress forever.
- Mr. Hoyer also forgets to note that many of those currently in Congress have been in office for 10, 20 or more years. They are now officially part of the problem since they have not been part of any solutions. They should do the noble thing an just resign and go away so that us ignorant voters do not continually re-elect them.
- But we also get some pretty darn entertaining statements from government bureaucrats, our political class does not have a monopoly on inane comments. Consider what David Vladeck, the head of the Federal Trade Commission recently stated relative to a $25 million settlement with Reebok and Reebook's claims that it's toning shoes firmed users' buttocks: "This settlement is...to remind advertisers big and small that they must have adequate proof before making claims." (Source: Business Week, October 3, 2011)
Think about this statement and effort in light of the following:
- Medicare loses at least $60 billion a year through waste, fraud, and criminal activity.
- Medicaid loses at least $30 billion a year through waste, fraud, and criminal activity.
- Social Security probably loses $70 billion or so a year through waste, fraud, and criminal activity.
- The IRS fails to collect about $200 billion a year in personal income taxes because of fraud and criminal activity.
Every time a politician says the darndest things and tries to explain something it usually makes the matter worse since it reinforces the growing perception that we are severely underserved by a naive, pompous, and out-of-touch set of politicians and government bureaucrats. Not cute, not adorable and certainly not effective.
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