A Little Something To Keep You Awake At Night.

A Little Something To Keep You Awake At Night.  I worked as a manager in a government agency for over 30 years.  I don’t lay claim to being the sharpest knife in the drawer; maybe not even one of the sharpest.  But simply by surviving that period of time in civil service, one cannot help but divine some hard lessons about how our government functions.  One of those hard lessons is having to constantly deal with the patronage system; otherwise known as political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the party in power.  In most cases, even though you as an employee might not agree with the policy you are helping to implement, you can appreciate the fact that what you are doing is the result of the electoral system that we have in place and the people who are calling the shots are fairly competent…albeit in your mind, misguided.  With the occasional bonehead appointee from both parties, my experience was that most all political players of power were competent.  If they fell short in the arena of wit and intelligence, they generally had enough savvy to delegate necessary work to capable career employees and the bills got paid.  This administration…this president…has set a new and pitiful standard in this area.  The most tragic example of this abysmal development is that he has accomplished this with not only the support of the Democratic Party, but also with their complicit participation in the process.  

If Obama had served only one term, this government might well have weathered without lasting damage the abomination of his mismanagement.  However, as we approach the midway point of his second term, it is becoming abundantly clear that it will take several new administrations, perhaps even a generation or two, to climb out of the deep, dark hole he has put this nation into. 

One need only look at the record to validate what I say.  Obama and his ilk claim that the world is a complex place and the challenges are greater than one man and one administration should be expected to manage or solve.  Excuse me…This retort from the man who would heal the planet and stop the rise of the oceans?  One need only watch a few moments of Harf or Psaki to realize that the people who are in charge of making the policies that regulate our daily lives are complete idiots.  These are people who are too inexperienced to perform their appointed duties; too arrogant to realize that do not have all of the answers; and are guided completely by naïve idealism where the “ends justifies the means”…with no regard for the ethical or legal standards that apply to those means.  The many scandals that have plagued this administration…Fast and Furious, IRS, VA hospitals, Obama’s foreign policy wonderland, the FBI, Obamacare…all of these began at least in part because the people in charge held neither the qualifications or dedication necessary to do the job correctly.  And now that the Ebola virus has cropped up in our country, who amongst us does not harbor some fear that Obama has put some similar incompetent in charge of the CDC and we wonder how well this crisis will be handled?

Only now, when Obama’s failure has become so apparent and undeniable, are Democrats beginning to acknowledge the misrepresented bill of goods he sold to us all.  If the mid-terms go Republican as large as they might, look for many more Democrats to begin to distance themselves from this egomaniac and struggle mightily to rewrite the history of their first six year’s allegiance to this administration.  There is certainly a healthy balance to be struck between realistic Liberals and Conservatives; a pragmatic process that somehow reveals the wisdoms of each and the accompanying warts.  But this outfit we now have in the White House…this bunch of idealists whose intelligence is never inwardly challenged…who are so damn certain that they know what is best for me, you, and the rest of the world…this outfit has stained Liberalism so badly that it will take a long, long time for any decent thinking person to respect their positions again.  Nanny state be damned; these people live in a fantasy land that rewards excessive pride and hubris with blind loyalty and the responsible Democrats of this United States ( and there are a bunch of them) will live to rue their silence and complicity in Obama’s follies.