Failure in the Bush
In last week’s Saturday quotes, I cited Thomas Watson’s gem “If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.”
What is good advice for budding young entrepreneurs, however, might not go far enough when applied to politicians, especially the evil ones. Here’s a thought: W has failed about every policy decision he has ever made. Be it waging and/or supporting futile wars that miss the point about who’s the bad guy (and how he wound up caste in that role), to transforming the image of a fine country into that of a selfish, self-obsessed, boring world-class bully, to blowing it on the environment and Katrina and Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and The Theory of Evolution, and well, I give up…
He has successfully used every one of his subsequent failures as a validation to ask for support in his rush to put in place the next… failure.
And, the people buy it. Enough, at least to give historians nightmares for years to come.
Discussion: We, the people have doubled our failure rate to the break point. What will Success look like?
Meredith wheeler wrote:
One thing we must do is VOTE. Bad politicians are elected by people who don’t vote. If only eligible Americans overseas voted, that would shift the outcome of many elections–and our absentee ballots are harder to hack than the electronic votes tallied on a Diebold machine.
So go to http://www.VoteFromAbroad.org and register to vote in the upcoming midterm elections this November.
It looks likely that Democrats will regain control of the House and possibly the Senate. But it can’t happen if concerned U.S. citizens don’t
vote! Send that url to all Americans that you know who live abroad.
You must register NOW to get your ballot (I’ve already been sent mine for the NY Democratic primary.)
Meredith (in my capacity as Chair of Democrats Abroad in Southwestern France)
meredith.wheeler@free.fr
Posted on 20-Aug-06 at 3:29 pm | Permalink