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Never Too Many Cheney Threads

by Tim F|  June 26, 20077:42 am| 7 Comments

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In two posts Josh Marshall touches on one of my favorite hobby horses regarding motivations and behavior – absent a compelling rationale for secrecy, people usually demand it to hide incompetence. Josh points out that Cheney may be a supernaturally gifted bureaucratic infighter, but his office has a real problem keeping actual secrets under wraps.

I don’t think that this point can be emphasized enough. People usually demand secrecy in order to hide their own failures, and when you give it to them their performance only gets worse.

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  1. 1.

    Lee

    June 26, 2007 at 8:08 am

    Waaaaay off topic (except that it could be filed under Republican Stupidity):

    Adim whistleblower has house burned down and car run off the road.

    From here

    Origional Story

    Looks legit….

  2. 2.

    Punchy

    June 26, 2007 at 8:29 am

    Cheney’s a patriot, one of the finest Vice-Presidents this country has ever seen. And no, he’s not part of the executive branch.

    Sean Hannity says so, so I must believe him.

  3. 3.

    Mr Furious

    June 26, 2007 at 9:39 am

    Marshall’s been on (driving?) the “Cheney is Incompetent” Bandwagon for a lonnng time. His WaMo article “Vice Grip” from years ago is a classic…

  4. 4.

    mrmobi

    June 26, 2007 at 10:05 am

    Waaaaay off topic (except that it could be filed under Republican Stupidity):

    Thanks for that link to Harpers, Lee. It’s a great piece, and another example of the craven way the justice departement is being politicized by Rove.
    In a fair world, we would get to see Karl Rove frog-marched in shackles to a maximum security prison.

    We can only hope.

  5. 5.

    M

    June 26, 2007 at 10:09 am

    Speaking of Cheney and the executive branch, Josh Marshall caught this Dana Perino press conference yesterday, that was pretty astounding:

    http://www.veracifier.com/post/978/tpm-extra-ouch-perino-gets-sliced-and-diced

  6. 6.

    Tsulagi

    June 26, 2007 at 11:19 am

    People usually demand secrecy in order to hide their own failures, and when you give it to them their performance only gets worse.

    Yep. With the cycle repeating and building. Secrecy leading into incompetence. Incompetence leading to greater secrecy. Greater secrecy leading to even greater incompetence…on and on.

    Pressure builds. Causing some retarded bulges in their matrix. Apparently one being where we now learn of the previously unknown fourth branch of government: The Cheney. He who is not of, nor bound by the executive branch or legislative. He has given birth to himself. He has risen. 9/11 changed everything.

    With this admin I also like when the incompetence is so great, to where even a special olympian would point and chuckle “now that’s fucked up,” can not be kept secret, when it’s of monumental proportions where even the Spin Machine 2000 Colossus doesn’t have enough bullshit and lipstick to cover it over…they say “let history decide.”

  7. 7.

    Rome Again

    June 26, 2007 at 2:10 pm

    Speaking of Cheney and the executive branch, Josh Marshall caught this Dana Perino press conference yesterday, that was pretty astounding:

    Dana Perino is way out her league. I expected this. She’s not Tony Snowjob, that’s for sure! Apparenlty it’s tough for the woman to lie, so she gets caught in shit like this.

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