I’ve seen it before. I can smell it. It’s the stench of stuck – aka incompetence – aka inexperience – aka no guts. It happens in government, politics, in trucking and every other business in this nation. Once you get it, it overtakes you like an infected rash. Dyer called in “immobilization”.
For a manager, it’s a clear sign to move on. Some refer to it as the “Peter Principle”. When you finally get out, a freeze breeze of thank God he’s (or she) is gone – we can finally get things done. Gee, why did we wait so long.
My son is in a high stress, high dollar job. Decisions have to be made, now, not days or months from now. A new general manager was brought in. He was chock full of promises. It was going to be a new day. Things would be popp’n and rock’n soon. Nothing happened. Zero, zilch, nada. Months go by. Good people leave. Customers go elsewhere. Employees are dissatisfied.
The owner waited far too long to make a change. Finally, the guy was terminated. The previous manager brought back in. Everything started to flow again. Business returned. Fired and demoted employees were rehired and promoted. The dark cloud – the stench of stuck – had moved on. We’ve all heard of what happens to a trucking company when the man who started and built the company retires or passes away, and the son or daughter takes over. Everything changes, for the worse. Downhill goes the business. The kids just don’t have the touch. The MBA doesn’t help. Goodbye business. Adios jobs.
Our President has the stench of stuck. I voted for Barack. No way in heck was I going to let John McCain and Sara Palin in the White House. I don’t regret that decision. I ‘m not a fan of the Tea Party, but I have nothing but respect when a man can question the President, face to face, about why this country is in the toilet. It happened in Iowa. It’s about time the press aggressively does the same thing. It’s time all of us stop standing on the sidelines, waving flags and get in “our” governments face.
Obama and Perry were at Iowa 80 (truck stop) yesterday. Can you find one person who sees and hears Perry and does not think George Bush? Perry – Bush – Bush – Perry. If you’re not from Texas, was Perry ever on your radar screen? He wasn’t on mine, and I pay close attention to politics. We’ve had three Texans in the White House in our lifetime, Johnson, Bush and Bush. Johnson didn’t have the brains or balls to get us out of Vietnam and the two Bushes, well, the father wasn’t too bad, but the son – OMG – the damage the son did our country, our global reputation and our economy – we’ve never recovered. Perry needs to go back to Austin and stay there – preferably keeping his mouth shut.
Obama says he’s going to tell us something in September. Some “big” plan. Yeah right. That’s after he parks his $1.1 million dollar custom tour bus and comes back from vacation. The New York Times’ Joe Nocera, reports: “Some 25 million people – more than 16 percent of the work force – are looking for full-time work. Companies are hoarding cash while reporting record profits. As for the government, President Obama’s idea of job creation is extending unemployment insurance, on the one hand, and painting grandiose pictures of far-off “green jobs,” on the other. He is bereft of ideas for creating jobs in the here and now. Meanwhile, the Republicans insist -despite mounds of evidence to the contrary – that more tax cuts would create jobs. By now, most Americans have lost hope that our current government will come up with a viable jobs program. It won’t.”
But what about Palin, O-Bachmann and the rest of the Republican and Tea Party clowns? Beyond saying that the President should have served in the military, calling the Fed chairman a traitor and not knowing the right date of the King’s (Elvis) passing, are any of these people worth our time? Same deal with Democrats, none of whom anybody listens to anyway. Does anybody care about Harry Reed? The answer to these questions is NO.
We have no more tolerance for “Stepford” candidates – perfect White people – millionaires – with their perfect careers, perfect waist lines, perfect children, perfect clothes, perfect hair and Botox faces – all having absolutely no clue as to how to turn this country around. These people think we’re morons, who think we’re just going to elect them into office, based on the fact that the Obama Administration AND CONGRESS is failing.
Why even Karl Rove doesn’t think much of Rick Perry. Good ‘n Paw-lenty is gone. I told you so. Palin is clueless. The rest of them are useless. Let’s spot the stench of stuck right here and now. We want answers not promises. This President was elected on promises, with people hoping he had answers. Wrong. Not only doesn’t he have answers, he’s apparently surrounded by “experts” - also with no answers. So much for an Ivy league ed-u-ma-ca-tion.
I’ve known CEO’s who, in similar predicaments, fired all the top senior management and overhauled the middle and lower layers. It wasn’t the guy making the widget that was the problem, it was the idiot telling him how to do his job that was the cog in the wheel, and his manager – and his boss and the next boss all the way up through the layers of fat bureaucracy until nothing got to the very top, other than, we’re losing business.
Obama’s never ran a business. He wasn’t in the military. But, he didn’t have to. This is now an issue of sheer common sense. He’s up to his tush in alligators – time to drain the swamp. Can he do it? Yes. Will he do it? I have no idea. But time is seriously running out, perhaps time has already run out, but clearly none of the other “candidates” – “hopefuls” have any clue either. And that’s scary. And no debt “commission” is going to help matters.
If we had recall votes for the Presidency in this country, Obama just might be headed back to Chicago. But who should replace him? Is there someone in the shadows that we’re not aware of right now. Please come forward, we need you.
PS/lead photo/Telegraph Herald – “No one was injured in the crash between two semi-tractor trailers this morning that caused more than $275,000 damage to a wind turbine propeller and restricted traffic for more than two hours. According to the Dubuque Police Department, Michael Anders, 47, of Smithshire, Ill. was cited for failure to maintain control. His semi struck the one carrying the propeller, driven by Ricky Stagner, 54, Grand Prairie, Texas.”
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