TC the Terrible

Jesus H. Christ on a stick.

I know that the undeclared (at least officially) goal of the Washington Post is to bring this President to his knees. But can we at least leave his goddamn kids out of this? When Slick Willie was in office his daughter was declared off limits by all major media. Hell even Rush Limbaugh refused to take shots at the First Child. The Post needs to extend the same courtesy to the Bush girls.

Fire away at Rummy. He’s a public official and fair game. The Big Donald knew what the hell he was getting into when he signed on for this job. After all, being the SEC DEF is not the first time he’s rode a bull in this town’s rodeo.

A valid public debate about the way he has performed and his merits is a good thing. But the question I’ve got for William Arkin is who do you suggest for Rumsfeld’s replacement, David Ignatius? Or maybe Broder?

Shit, you guys need to give it a break. Six retired generals have an ax to grind and are going about it in a very un-military way. Officers are expected to be professionals even when they retire. These guys must have forgotten that. Besides, has anyone stopped to ask if they might have some hidden personal agenda? Maybe like trying to deflect some of the blame away from themselves and the mistakes they made?

Are there problems in Iraq now? The answer is yes. Does all the blame fall on one man? Hell no.

I’m out for the night.

TC

Damn it’s hectic here today. We did a brief for the One-Star boss yesterday and he had tons of changes he wanted to see. Nothing hard, and nothing really wrong with the content; he just wanted to see it from a different skew. Now my boss and I are jumping out of our butts to get the team (we control none of them) to make the changes and get them back to us.

I’m not sure why Todd and Freak are consumed by the weather. But I will admit that the golf forecast is looking really good here.

Before we moved out here everyone was concerned about how safe we would be. Up until yesterday’s rash of car-jackings I would have sworn that Memphis was the more dangerous town. Maybe it’s because we live way out in the ‘burbs that DC seems like a safer place. What ever it is, this is the first wave of violence that we’ve had to deal with. And it sounds like these guys are pretty bad ass. Nine car jackings in a single day has got to be some kind of record in thug land.

And I don’t know if the Mirror has this right or not but if this is true the Tom Cruise really has gone over the edge. Hell, even primitive people don’t eat the afterbirth. Maybe this is what happens to gay guys when they become big stars and have to hide their sexuality behind fake marriages. Either way, this is just way the hell too strange.

Back to the grindstone.