These boys really do need to get some new talking points. Next, they'll be saying the problem in Iraq is the estate tax. It's like The Mighty Wurlitzer has turned in to The Puny Player Piano. AP:
"The problem is not broad strategy and policy, it's that the bureaucracy is so inefficient and there's been so little follow-up that the machine doesn't work," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said. He believes red tape in Washington is the biggest obstacle to winning in Iraq.
Gingrich has joined others in suggesting that a single person report directly to Bush — and perhaps the next president — and ask: "What are the choke points? What regulations do we need to fix?"
Yes, the "war czar" idea. To authoritarians, the best solution is always more authority, eh? How's that working out, you ask?
So far, there have been no takers for the job.
Seems to me, actually, that we had a war czar. His name was Rummy, and Bush heaved him under a bus after the mid-terms....
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I got an idea!
We could appoint a single person to oversee each aspect of the doings of government, see? And then that person would appoint individual people for each of the aspects of that operation, and each of those would have a set of people.
Each person's staff, or office, would then be responsible for rule. It would be office rule, or "officeocracy" if you will. Oh, I suppose that doesn't scan, so we could substitute some French word for office or something, but still --
What a fresh new idea!