I was looking through the comments over at
Atrios after his post about the Rethugs making their spending cuts look better by
"incompetently" confusing millions with billions, and I noticed Big John Mayberry's astute observation that may seem too simple and obvious to many of us, but has to be said again and again,
They are NOT INCOMPETENT. Venal, greedy, dishonest, corrupt, yes, but they are doing exactly what they mean to do.
more below fold...
And here's what I'm thinking: we progressives and Democrats are content to let the media chalk it up to incompetence, which is an interesting thing, because typically, you can fire someone for that, but we, the employers of these ass-hats, cannot fire them due to procedural difficulties, so being labeled incompetent DOESN'T HURT THEM AT ALL.
At least, not the way being labeled "Venal, greedy, dishonest, [and] corrupt" would.
I think we need to demand the kind of accountability from the media and our elected "Democratic" leaders that will do the right thing and put these criminals in jail, not for criminal incompetence, because that's a hard sell, but for THE GODAMN ACTUAL FULLY INTENTIONAL CRIMES THEY'VE BEEN COMMITTING. I long for the day I hear a Democrat politician say, "You know, here are a few examples of my non-distinguished shame of a colleague being venal, greedy, dishonest and corrupt."
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