AFTERMATH: It's The Fallout, Stupid!

I've been sitting here in a stupor for about four days ... asking myself what's going on? Today I read this ...

The head of al Qaeda's Iraq operations yesterday gloated in a new audio tape over the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and praised U.S. voters for punishing President Bush and the Republicans in Tuesday's midterm elections. [WashTimes]

I'm no dummy, just a conservative. And I'm not talking about losing the Rummy, the House, and the Senate all in one week. No! Even the Libs and the Dems are not happy with the fallout. But it bugs the hell out of me that terrorists and their governments are gloating ... as if they have some reasonable alternative to America's largess.

On more than one account the Mohammedans (Muslims) are doomed to failure ... read another reason here.

But it's not just the elections and the war or lack there of ... it's the American people; in fact it's people in general ... we are all so darn self-serving!

My mind, though it's nowhere near on par with Dennis Prager, Patrick Moynihan, or Wm. F. Buckley, it's fried ochra better than what I'm seeing among the world's leaders ... especially ours. They must have known this present chaos would result ... didn't they? But they open their mouths and shoot themselves in the foot anyway; putting all of our lives in jeopardy.

Way back in my days in corporate planning, we had a slew of oral rules-of-thumb; two of my favorites follow (my metrics):

PROBLEMS
An abundance of reporters,
Yours shall always be;
But as for lowly solvers,
These you'll rarely see

And ...

DEFINITIONS
Thy problem thou shalt not solve,
Till it thou doest define;
If it thou must resolve,
Thy definition thou must refine

Corny, huh? But oh so darn true! Why can't people see that?

Herein lies the world's present dilemma: rule number one, with the assistance of MSM, is being violated at a rate several times the ability of solvers to keep up; while rule number two is being intentionally ignored for the sake of convenience, expedience, arrogance (read: hubris), ignorance (lack of knowledge), as well as several other character flaws among the general population.

Iran and Syria say that a Democrat-controlled Congress and the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could relieve the pressure on them, officials from those countries said. [CNSNews]

The American people know their actions embolden their enemies, but apparently they don't care! American leaders of every stripe (here & here for example) have screwed the people for decades in this great nation and now, I believe, the people have responded in kind with a corporate, "Screw you!"

In my opinion this election said if we can't get rid of the political scum through honest elections then we're going to go for the gusto and get what we can for our families before there is no America. This take suggests the election results were not a message to Elephants or Donkeys but rather to politicians ... just a middle finger to the whole bunch.

What else can a disenfranchised people do? (Go at once and reread the Declaration of Independence)

The Clintocrats defined their 1992 campaign for the White House by the slogan "It's the economy, stupid!" It was intended to point to the solution for a Republican in the White House ... their perceived problem. But that wasn't the problem.

The problem was that the electorate had been disenfranchised; so, beginning in the 60s (with rare exception), the diminishment of electoral power resulted in all parties fielding progressively inferior national and local candidates (note most of them are lawyers).

The people are fed up, I tell you. The terrorist in Guantanamo is getting better legal assistance than Frank Farmer in Sioux Falls or Wanda Waitress in Orlando ... and he doesn't have to pay for it. It's the fallout of all this bickering and disingenuous discourse that endangers America ... "it's the fallout, stupid!" What do I mean by "the fallout"? The unintended consequences (see also the Butterfly Effect") of our actions.

This is what has me in a funk! Apparently the American people are unwilling to learn from history but willing to use their votes to help this nation self-destruct!

No, I am not having a sour grapes rant because my brainless party lost the elections ... they deserved to lose the elections! This is not about Democrats, Republicans, or any other party ... this is about the survival of America and perhaps of Western Civilization!

I hope no one is dumb enough to really believe that the Iraqi government will now and for all time be a democratic ally of the West in the Middle East ... wouldn't happen when it was first conceived of and it won't happen now!

Like my pastor friends say, "You can put a donkey in a tuxedo but he's still a jackass when the day is done!"

"Your mission, should you accept, is to quit reporting problems and start solving them; start by trying real hard to define your problems and then work to solve them. This world will self-destruct in _____ minutes!"

Arrogance, Elections, Electorate, Expediency,
Partisanship, Politics, Problems, Stupidity