Then and now redux

Of course, though it may be the day of the beast, it is also the 62nd anniversary of D-Day. Most of this is a reposting of what I put up last year.

Compare the future Republican President of the United States versus the current model.

"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone. June 5, 1944."

Those words were written by Dwight Eisenhower before the most substantial and risky military operation in world history. Of course, the Normandy Invasions did not fail, but if it had, the above statement would have been released and it would have been Eisenhower's epitath.

Sixty years later, we have a so-called leader that never assumes responsibility for anything negative.


September 11, 2001 and the national unpreparedness -- "Hey, I was on vacation"

The fact that Iraq did not have stockpiles of W.M.D., the main pretext he used to justify invading the nation?

"I just relied on what the people I wanted to hear told me? Don't look at me."

What about Iraq never seeming to get better?

"Dammit, I said it was getting better and dammit it is."

Turning a huge surplus into a massive defict?

"We both know that was the work of the evildoer fairies, not me."

Abu Ghraib?

It was the little redneck woman, not me or anybody high up.

The continuing lackluster performance of the stock market.

"Is that Clenis guy still available?"

The Social Security Plan that actually makes things substantially worse?


That medicare prescription plan with the gigantic doughnut holes that accomplished little except make Big Pharma wealthier than ever?


Haditha, and other deaths of civilians because there was no plan and no training for insurgency?


I guess somebody doesn't want to play anymore.

Well now we know don't we?

It's all those activist judges and gay marriage.