Great TalkingPointsMemo, Josh Marshall - No More Crap

[TacticalPeek]

Again and again I read -- or hear directly from
administration supporters -- this excuse that any
questioning of the administration's record in
foreign affairs, or Iraq, or even on other matters
is just a deplorable focusing on the past, a
distraction, when the nation faces grave
challenges which we need to focus on solving.

This is more than just simple buck-passing. It is
a sort of through-the-looking-glass version of
how problem-solving and accountability are
supposed to work. It also has the perverse
benefit of allowing the scope of the
administration's failures to become reasons for
not discussing those failures -- a sort of
self-reinforcing anti-accountability causality
loop, with all manner of moral hazards built in.

We've created such a mess that we don't have
the time or the luxury to start second-guessing
how badly we screwed things up!

I've always been strict about keeping four-letter
words off this site. So I apologize for the
graphic nature of this analogy. But this is like I
come back to my office to find my new
employee has taken a crap right on my desk.

Puzzledly and not happy, I say, "What, umm ...
what happened here?"

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[KoKo]

1. Josh has now moved to where I am...so I love this rant of his! He got

suckered into believing the WMD/Chem/BIO...but at least he has the guts to call it what it is. And what I most love about his rant is that he says "Don't forget the Past" and focus "on the future" which is what "they" are trying to tell us. He gets it correctly.

And I give him a big :loveya: for this! If only they had listened to those of us who carried our signs in protest and reported about what we were trying to say. We, who had been through this too many times!

But, Josh, is young and has a good head, and he's learned. A big smooch to Josh!