The Competence of this Administration

Liberals keep pointing out the incompetence of this administration, which I find absurd. They are only incompetent if their actions are focused on liberal values and democratic goals, which most acknowledge is not what the republican party as a whole or this administration adheres to. In a speech Bush Jr. has said, "some call you the elite, I call you my base." He does well by them, and his administration does well in what they set out to do. Liberals just keep taking the bait of their stated goals and don't bother trying to preempt their apparent goals.

In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive of a major oil services company, remarked: "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian." But the oil and gas there is worthless until it is moved. The only route which makes both political and economic sense is through Afghanistan. [Guardian]
1998 Unocal Statement:Suspension of activities related to proposednatural gas pipeline across Afghanistan As a result of sharply deteriorating political conditions in the region, Unocal, which serves as the development manager for the Central Asia Gas (CentGas) pipeline consortium, has suspended all activities involving the proposed pipeline project in Afghanistan
.http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/oil.html

26 June 2001: India and Iran will "facilitate" US and Russian plans for "limited military action" against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don't bend Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime.
http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures/nat2.asp?recno=10∓ctg=policy

This means that they planned to attack Afghanistan before 9/11. Did we get the terrorist responsible…is that ineptitude?...I don't know…they sure got their pipeline though, which they had been planning a lot longer than they had been looking for terrorists.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2608713.stm

My point is simply, our government is not in the hands of fools, but savvy, formidable politicians who have the connections, power, and know-how to get done exactly what they want to get done, and they do. Don't ever doubt it, don't call them stupid. This supposed stupidity and incompetence is a red-herring, it keeps us from questioning. Respect them, don't underestimate them. We have not dug ourselves deeper and deeper by electing idiots, we are in this hole of lost civil liberties and unending war, and systemic destabilization of the middle east, and America-hating, and continuing loss of life all over the globe because we have underestimated them.

They have the democratic party reacting, which makes it impossible to act. The democrats are constantly trying to save face because the republicans have taken core liberal issues and turned them into dirty words. It's like a woman being teased because she is on her period, but women are learning to say, "damn right I bleed, and there is nothing unclean about it…I have the power to bring life into this world." It's like Hispanics being thought of as less intelligent because they don't speak English perfectly, but they are learning to say, "What do you know of Hispanic literature, poetry, philosophy, huh Gringo?" It's like homosexuals being considered sinners because they love, but they are learning to say, "Excuse me, why can I kill my fellow man and rape my fellow woman in war, but I cannot love them in peace?"
So why can't the democratic party say "Hell yes…I'm a flip-flopper because I consider new information as it becomes available and I change my perspective when intelligence and reason invalidates my previous position….Fuck you, I am not soft on crime, I am soft on criminals because they are people who have fallen through the cracks, and instead of crippling their ability to function in this world or taking their lives, I would fill in the cracks to prevent people from falling through in the future…and Hell yes, that is why I am pro welfare, that is why I am pro education, that is why I am pro universal healthcare…Hell yes, I am pro-choice because we do not have the socialist measures to equip every woman with the means and time to raise a healthy, well-adjusted child out of poverty, and we already have too many women and children living below the poverty line…Hell yes, homosexuals, minorities, and women should have the same rights afforded everyone else.A word of advice for liberals, reclaim your name, admit your policies and platforms and explain why you hold them in esteem, stop trying to justify them. Trying to justify them overshadows the fact that million of Americans hold the same values…that you condescend to act as if rationality, equality, and compassion need to be justified, you make millions of Americans doubt their validity.

Wake up democrats, most Americans do listen, you just haven't been saying anything. We are not apathetic, we are disenfranchised. We are not stupid, we are ill-informed. We are not finicky, we are confused.