“When in danger, when in doubt…”
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“Run in circles, scream and shout!”
My sister and I use this wry couplet to deride a certain branch of our family tree that reacts to crises real and imagined with hair-pulling panic and hysteria. We don’t find it particularly helpful or effective. In fact, it frequently makes things worse.
Perhaps we’re related—by marriage—to the Carvilles of Louisiana. Former Bill Clinton campaign manager James Carville this week urged the president to respond to the daunting political challenges he faces by panicking. And firing people. An indicting others.
Recommending the freak-out strategy is something of a pattern with Carville. Hey, maybe it works for him. And it is nice to imagine that his neo-con shill wife is reaping her earthly reward via wedlock with an explosive anger-fetus.
But is Carville’s advice really sound, even when you analyze the more substantive points? Jason Linkins has a good rundown of why it’s really not here. Among his points is that if President Obama fires his appointed staff, he’ll transform the West Wing into a howling, tumbleweed-infested void since the Republicans have adopted the policy of refusing to approve any Obama administration appointment on general principles.
Carville advises the president to indict the Wall Street greedheads who brought our economy to its knees. And certainly the prospect of seeing those bastards frog-marched warms the cockles of my little socialist heart.
But there’s one leeetle problem with that: Thanks to the repeal of the Glass Steagall Act (signed by Carville’s former boss), the financial shenanigans that torpedoed our economy—while wildly imprudent scams—were for the most part legal.
Anyhoo, I’m confident Mr. Obama will continue to ignore Carville’s concern-trolling. As well he should.
Posted by Betty Cracker on 09/16/11 at 07:54 AM • Permalink
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