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I love to read "Mullings" authored by Rich Galen (http://www.mullings.com/.)

However, in his most recent issue (07-13-07) I have to fault Rich for one thing, he made a terrible mistake or assumption in the article when he asserted near the end, "He [Chertoff] is smart enough and experienced enough to understand that a phrase like "a kind of gut feeling" is not what America is looking for in a threat assessment."

Given Chertoff’s track record to date, I don’t believe he is either smart or experienced.

He is a bureaucrat who (a) has a definite self-interest in promoting fear as a form of job security and cover and (b) is way in over his head.

Not only does he have his own self-interest to look out for, he also has to cover Bush’s back to quickly deflect attention away from the failed immigration debacle (and the administration’s continued refusal to secure the border) and now change the subject with the Iraq debacle facing them straight on.

The Iraqi debate is a debacle because Bush is not exactly Patton on the issue. Oh we hear daily that he truly understands the problem, so what then is the problem? What is so hard to understand about being Commander-in-Chief?

If you are POTUS=CIC begin by telling the congress to shut their pie holes – the nation has had enough of your whining. Then bring in the ‘defectocrats’ (Republicans) who say they will vote against the strategy (the surge) and tell them in no uncertain terms that they will face strong conservative opposition, recruited by the POTUS=CIC (or local party) in the next election. But please no Karl Rover involvement in candidate selection or campaign.

AS POTUS=CIC - I’ll consult you [congress] on the operations as needed when you decide to grow up and face the realities of life. In a fight for our very survival, we don’t need spoiled brats and cowards running around the town square screaming and babbling about how to ‘fight’ a war (insure defeat).

General Patraeus is the man for the job and he is pursuing the correct strategy. If that strategy is not working we will adapt, improvise, over come! GenPatraeus and all the brave young men and women putting their lives on the line to protect you (the congress) and this nation can not operate on a policy of relativism in the field. Frankly, you [the congress] do not deserve the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard we have and I might just convene them for a meeting here in Washington to lobby you about their mission and the real danger facing this nation. Yes that is a threat.

As long as I am POTUS=CIC - This nation is going to pursue victory in Iraq and the war against terror. We will bring down the thunder and lightening on this criminal gang attempting to hold the world hostage to their cowardice ideology. We will pursue them wherever and whenever we find them, including Iran and Pakistan. If you vote against the surge, then I want each of you to know you are voting against the brave young men and women putting it all on the line – for you and this nation. The American people don’t like that. The American people did not vote for defeat when they unfortunately handed you the reigns of power in the congress. With your votes, you [the congress of the United States] are abandoning young men and women while they are still in the fields of fire, in their time of greatest need, and when this nation most needs its patriots to stand up.

What do we get instead? "I respect the other side, we can have honest debates and disagreements, I understand that." The Democrats and Republicans opposing the surge and the war are not being honest or respectful and, frankly, should be treated as such.

We are fed this garbled misspeak and platitudes. Bush is a lame duck, he has lost the war on the war just as he has lost his presidency.

He has lost because he is an accommodationist by nature, an expiator of the first order, unwilling to stand up to the thugs overrunning and, frankly, destroying what remaining credibility the congress might have had.

Which brings me back to Chertoff. It is a fact – related by reliable sources (friends of mine) in Washington – that the entire DHS [Department of Homeland Security] is in way over its head. The bureaucracy is massive and, well, too bureaucratic and cumbersome.

Many were calling for this man’s dismissal and resignation long before the immigration fight. He is an incompetent boob, but typical of the so-called ‘leadership’ in Washington.

Among classical extremists like myself, we have been calling for Chertoff’s head, not just because of the border debacle but his over all vision. The problem with his vision is, like his boss El Jorge, he lacks the ‘vision-thing,’ all together.

Chertoff does not inspire leadership – he is first and foremost a sycophant in pursuit of a career in ‘public service’ and to top it all off, just another petulant lawyer who sees too many sides to the issues of the day.

Chertoff lacks an internal, self-defining ideology other than that of a bureaucrat and that is the central problem. Like others who hold to Washington think, they lack any central core beliefs, except the ideology of the State.

This man should never have been handed the job (he had no prior executive experience) and he should now be fired.

If the congress really wants to help the nation, DHS should be dismantled and decentralized into workable components sharing a common database. Chertoff knows this as well as those within the bureaucracy, but he will not speak up on the issue because he cares more for his job and its power base and he does not want to offend its central architects the incompetent boobs in congress.

Anyone in Washington will tell you that DHS has too many responsibilities and it is quickly turning into a giant cluster (I’m sure you can fill in the blank).

Chertoff’s "gut" feelings speak more about his own intestinal fortitude, or lack thereof, than the threat to this nation. He is using his position and power to deflect rather than inform and this is a serious, but unfortunately just another in a long line of breaches in the credibility and integrity of this administration.

Peddling fear is not a political strategy given an administration that will NOT secure the border and stand up and fight the congress over the issues of the day.

Chertoff is under stress within the bureaucracy and from the public about his failed leadership as head of DHS, just as his boss. The use of one's position and power to purposely deflect attention and change the subject in a time of real and serious danger is shameful, especially when it is coming from an administration that will not stand up and fight the play ground bullies (congress) on the issues of the day. Calls for alerts and increased vigilance begin to ring hallow after a while; particularly, when the CIC will not fight for the American people or his beliefs anymore.

But hey job security is job one with people lacking any true vision or core beliefs.

There has been a concerted effort from the conservative side of the ledger to throw this guy over board - we have used the phone, fax and email campaign against him and he is no doubt, like his boss and congress - feeling the pressure.

It is time the bureaucrats and politicians in Washington feel the heat. We need to turn the tables on these people. Join the fight and start the restoration process – the process of restoring representative government through the power of your voice and written word, stand up, speak out, the times demand it!

THE END

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Colossal Ignorance

the deepening crisis of live earth

Has there been a more egotistically based event based on a more subjective vision of order than what some watched on July 7, 2007.  Live Earth could have just as easily been renamed the international convention for the unintelligent (the National Ignorance Party - NIP).

I confess I made it a point to watch Algore speak just to see what the blimp (or is it Led Zeppelin) had to say. As I listened I did not learn anything, his litany, cadence and timing is unbearable; instead my mind began to wonder – wonder why this gasbag was on the stage at all.

I thought to myself why does anyone in this audience listen to this fool or believe him, except then I jolted myself back to reality and reminded myself that this was, after all, the National Ignorance Party.

Algore and Kennedy (ferret faced Robert Jr.) both could have done a lot more for the environment by just keeping their mouths shut.

As al Qaeda roast ten-and-eleven year old little boys alive and then serve their stuffed bodies on a platter to their families in Iraq, we are preoccupied in the west with two blathering fools of comfort – spoiled children - propagandizing about global warming.

As these two fed the audience a clap trap of socialist environmentalism and scapegoats (capitalism and consumers), the little boys of Iraq were being ‘served’ to their families in an attempt to ‘recruit’ (convince) their parents to support their cause of terrorism.

Could there be two more pretentiously ignorant, colossally stupid trust fund babies in the world?

Consider, here we have two bourgeoisie spoiled children spouting out a litany of brainwashed bloviations about something neither of them understand, except in the most cursory way. They are nothing more than subjectivist mouthpieces for something neither are qualified to speak.

These two gasbags emanating vapors of hot air lambasted the political class for their inaction on what both said was ‘the greatest issue and danger of our times’ – global warming and the environment, please!

This coming from two of greatest political insiders of our times. And while these two spoiled brats of comfort, privilege, and subjectivism spoke to the audience trying to recruit the unintelligent and uninformed to their cause; the little boys of Iraq are being systematically terrorized, murdered, filleted, stuffed, roasted, and served to their families as a means of recruiting support.

We in the west and the United States need to learn discernment when it comes to the important issues of our times. Evil does exist and it is currently stalking the little boys of Iraq and need I remind you - the little boys of America.

Standing across the great battlefield of life, evil is looking straight into our eyes, while our leadership can not and will not muster the courage to stare back in determined defiance, they break eye contact instead. Evil is calculating what we are going to do in the face of its actions and planning its next move.

Sadly, we are taking the minimalists approach, sacrificing our little boys and girls in the sands of Iraq for a population of spoiled children in this nation and in the West who do not care anymore.

This graphic juxtaposition between these two bloviators of privilege and comfort and the plight of the little boys of Iraq can not present us with a starker picture of our own expiation of these people or provide us with a more dramatic contrast between the unintelligent vision of order advocated by Gore-Kennedy and the realities of the world staring back at us.

There can be no greater contrast in seeing their unintelligent vision of order and its consequences, namely, the continuing degradation, depravity, debasement, and horrific results manifest in the roasted bodies of the little boys of Iraq. Consider the last minutes in the lives of those little boys of Iraq and then contrast that to the policy implications of the little boys of privilege in the west.

The little boys of Iraq and America are being sacrificed on the altar of the Gore-Kennedy types and their corrupt vision of order.

After watching these two morons and viewing a sampling of the audience of the National Ignorance Party, I took a few more minutes to see if there might be a counter to this stupidity. I rolled over to C-Span and came upon a symposium "Watergate and the Media.'

Sitting there was none other than Carl Bernstein. As I looked at him, I thought to myself that he was going to literally explode.

He looked like an over blown, uncomfortable balloon bouncing atop the seat of a chair. But my compassion could only go so far as I began to listen to this blathering fool – without doubt, the seventies most celebrated and greatest stenographer (along with Bobby Woodward).

Mr. Bernstein looked pained as he sat there, and after listening for a little while, it became all to apparent why, his look had to be the result of all that built up litany of gas bag rhetoric swelling from the last time some symposium of unintelligence actually considered this guy a serious journalists.

All in all, it was a total recall during those few minutes, a tour de force of the mentality that has infected the west and the United States of America and a reminder of why I watch less and less television or refuse to read anything these people write.

In those few minutes, I witnessed the romanticism of sixty’s militancy married to the artifice of mild, benevolent propaganda made palatable by the children of privilege and comfort in pursuit of a reactionary objective running totally counter to the realities of life.

It made me realize why Western civilization is in decline. We are in decline because Europe has long ago abdicated any leadership role in defense of our civilization and because the United States is in a growing crisis of confidence and conscience, falling to lead anymore on the important issues because we are unable to discern and form distinction.

The United States is becoming, slowly and incrementally, a nation preoccupied with the bloviations of the unintelligence who are absorbed with comfort and non-sense rather than realities (truth) that need to be addressed in this world.

The juxtaposition between the little boys of privilege and the little boys of Iraq make the point all too clear as to why this nation is in a deepening leadership crisis and why Western civilization is in decline.

The little boys of Iraq are calling out from the battlefield of life, from the furnaces of al Qaeda, and all our leadership can do, all our privileged class can do is ignore the screams of the little boys dismissing their lives as a sacrifice on the West’s altar of indulgence in non-sense.

Western man has become obsessed with the fragments of his own self-destruction, seeking out all matter of things to indulge himself, rather than take up the necessary toil needed to address the realities of our times.

As we indulge, evil is on the march.

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