“I’VE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY AND I’VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME…”

1/6/10

A quote in this morning’s Wall Street Journal article about President Obama’s assertion that U.S. intelligence agencies “failed to connect the dots” on the near catastrophe over Detroit told us much about the mindset of politicians and the people who make careers in “public service.” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs reportedly tried to reassures us by asserting

“The president is as frustrated as I’m sure the American people are. We’ve spent a lot of money in the intervening years. We’ve set up new positions.”

Hmm…

This is what all politicians, but especially those in the Bush/Obama Administration, consider “action.” Not applying common sense, like scrutinizing people who have spent considerable time in terrorist hotbeds who pay cash for one way flights and carry no luggage with them, not actually doing something, but, instead, spending a lot of money and hiring more bureaucrats. Your tax dollars at work.

There is, however, an exception to this lethargic attitude of the Bush/Obama crowd toward action of any real substance. When that action involves committing American treasure and troops (oh, sorry…”advisors.” That’s right…18 and 19 year old “advisors.”) to foreign adventures, the Bush/Obama folks snap right to it. After all, there’s plenty of money for favored folks in sending our kids overseas on pointless military expeditions and nation building exercises.