Tag: incompetence

14 Dec 2007

And the incompetence and cronyism continues

Mendacious Wacko of the Right Named Undersecretary Designate
Matthew Yglesias writes:
Jim Glassman, America’s New Salesman: One point people have tried to make over the past few years is that the Bush administration needs to stop thinking of public diplomacy as simply a need to put a better sales pitch on the same American policies. Our pitch [...]

31 Aug 2007

Katrina All the Time By PAUL KRUGMAN

Two years ago today, Americans watched in horror as a great city drowned, and wondered what had happened to their country. Where was FEMA? Where was the National Guard? Why wasn’t the government of the world’s richest, most powerful nation coming to the aid of its own citizens?
What we mostly saw on TV was the [...]