"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
Frank Dane
Like the classic, slapstick TV show in which three bumbling, harebrained, imbeciles run around directionless and without adult supervision, the Secretaries of Treasury, Homeland Security and Justice carry on endlessly and ineffectually. Giethner, Napolitano and Holder have set some real land speed records for damaging this nation's economic, security and law enforcement interests.
Geithner? Well we know he's part of the problem, not the solution, in our limping economy. Beginning with a personal tax quagmire during his Congressional confirmation, Geithner has executed one clumsy calamity after another; citizens have been calling for his head for more than two years.
Napolitano has been alternately absent at crucial times, then suddenly visible when the people demand it, offering flimsy excuses. She has allowed illegal aliens to continue streaming across our borders and worked against American's wishes in finding devious ways to grant them amnesty. She's from a 'border state' for God's sake.
Holder has alternated his laser-like focus between idiotically suggesting Khalid Sheik Mohammed be tried in NYC (he won't be), wrongly deciding not to prosecute Black Panther's who stood outside polling places in 2008 intimidating voters to vote for his boss, all the way to working stealthily behind the scenes to ban gun-ownership rights under American's noses.
I love the part where they point fingers at each other and at their predecessors, acting the whole time with a straight face as if they have done nothing wrong. But let me get back to The Three Stooges, the originators of this kind of comedic hilarity.
There's nothing funnier to me than a good, old-time 'early days' comedy such as the Stooges, Little Rascals or Keystone Cops.
They were adorable, going around disrupting other people's lives, while laughing and guffawing. It was great farce the way they took every disaster they created and immediately forgot about it without accepting any blame whatsoever, then went right on about their business of creating the next one. But I've gotten back onto Geithner, Napolitano and Holder again.
The Stooges were loved by a generation of kids who grew up watching them in the late afternoon before dinner or on the weekends and became one of 'the gang' with them.
But The Three Stooges never had a boss. They never had anybody to whom they needed to listen or who could fire them. There was never any downside to their antics. They just went on, seemingly oblivious.
Here, The Three Stooges and our The Three Secretaries have something in common. No boss supervising them, nobody taking the blame when they screw up. And certainly nobody who tries to make amends for his or her failings or foul-ups.
If The Three Stooges won't admit their faults and shortcomings, why would their boss? If they had one, that is.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King (1929-1968)