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I am so, so sorry the Utopians have been given any power at all. All I can say is, “I told you this would happen.” Now,democratic cypher, you are supposed to say, “Did I do that?”
“This is the innocence of incompetence. Obama isn’t a programmer; he can’t be held responsible for Healthcare.gov. Hillary Clinton isn’t a soldier or even a real diplomat. She can’t be held responsible for Benghazi. Sebelius is a political appointee whose job is to look into the camera with the baffled incomprehension of the professional civil servant. “I don’t know anything. I just work here.”
That is solid gold. Daniel, you are gifted.
The ideologues are always innocent because it's always the implementation that fails; not their ideas. It's why Communism isn't responsible for the USSR or North Korea going down the tubes. The ideas were solid, but the programmers did a bad job of coding their brilliant economic theories into a working website.
And so we are told once again that Obama is smart. Really, really smart. Despite this fearsome intelligence, there isn't one thing they can point to abroad or at home that he did well on his own. And that very uselessness shows how smart he is. Any idiot can fix a car, build a website or make a foreign policy work. It takes a real genius to come up with the ideas and sigh in disappointment as everyone else screws them up.
I talked with a small businessman who had an interesting philosophy. He divided people into two groups: honest people and Democrats.
He spent years building his business, and when he dealt with another businessman, he put his effort into finding out if the other one had character. He used several tricks to do this, and if the other businessman failed to demonstrate honesty, he and his business would be blacklisted. No more business with them, ever.
And over the years, as his business grew, so did the circle of honest businessmen he did business with. It made business much simpler. Contracts with handshakes, making good your promises even when something goes amiss. Honest assessments, projections and budgets.
Then he said the hard part is doing this with your friends. This is because a lot of real Democrat scoundrels try to master the art of being charming and appearing friendly. But when you scratch the surface, the are filled with lies, cheating, hatred and anger, and cannot control their lusts and greed.
But, he concluded, as entertaining as this might be to watch from afar, you never want such people too close, or they will invariably try to drag you down into the muck with them.
One of the best conservative writers of our time.
