About that "reset" button
...that Hillary Clinton gave to the Russian foreign minister.
It's worse than I ever imagined: It's not that they got the translation
for the word "reset" wrong. This carnival of clowns didn't even use the
right alphabet! <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20404.html>
I can understand missing the translation. Actually, it happens all the
time, though it would be unusual at this level. But not realizing that,
gee, I've noticed over the years that Russians seem to use some sort of
crazy backwards alphabet, but still taking the idea, running with it,
and getting all the way up to the Secretary of State without any adult
supervision looking at the damn thing even once on the way up the
flagpole takes incompetence to a whole new level of stupidity.
But it's not just incompetence. All administrations have teething
problems in the early weeks. All administrations make some bad hires and
accidentally let morons through the vetting process (though after the
Livingstone thing, Hillary seems to have taken that practice to a high art.)
That kind of incompetence is understandable, and will eventually weed
itself out as the incompetent staffers are identified, let go, or placed
in positions where they can't do any more damage. Like Secretary of
Education, for instance.
But this incident belies incompetence for the worst of all possible reasons:
The error appalled some in the State Department, because the button
-- which was inscribed in Latin script, not Cyrillic -- hadn't been
assembled with the help of State's cadre of Russian speakers and
professional translators, but rather by Clinton's small political team.
Why in God's name does the Secretary of State still have a "small
political team" of commissar loyalists? She's the farging Secretary of
State, not the President. She's not a politician. She's a diplomat.
Apparently, she's congenitally incapable of telling the difference.
And why is she allowing her small, political team of operatives to stick
their juvenile, incompetent noses in protocol functions, where they have
zero expertise? Why isn't she putting them on a leash and limiting their
functions (to, say, making coffee at Foggy Bottom)?
Why? Because Ms. "Ready-To-Lead-On-Day-One" doesn't have much executive
experience herself, and apparently doesn't know when to rely on her
career Russia experts. Instead, she's allowed herself to be surrounded
by Clintonista sycophants who don't know shit from shinola. And as a
result, Hillary Clinton, the executive, doesn't know shit from shinola
either.
If President Obama has any testicles, he'd tell Hillary to punt her
private praetorian guard. Give them their walking papers, pronto. They
are on the public payroll now, but they aren't serving the public
interest. They are there to serve Hillary's interests, and preserve her
option to stab the President in the back should she desire to run again
in 2012.
You know they are running roughshod over the career State Dept.
professionals, throwing their weight around. If Obama has them ousted,
he'll be a hero at State. And Clinton will be a better Secretary for it.
Splash, out
Jason
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