Conspiracy Theory

So my latest conspiracy theory is that the Bush Administration went out of their way to create the monumental screw up in the economy so that the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress would be so overwhelmed that they wouldn't have an opportunity to look backwards and see the incredibly stupid things that were done.

I think they also hoped that the economy, and the business trends in general, would have had a more adverse impact on the newspaper business, especially the NY Times. The Times is going through some serious problems, but they can still put together a pretty good story.

Their latest one about the cluster-, well you know, surrounding the enhanced interrogation (some people refer to it as torture - toh-may-toh, toh-mah-toh) is almost unbelievable. George "Slam-Dunk" Tenet, I now believe, was an even bigger screw up than Michael "Heckuva Job" Brown. The CIA hired psychologists to assist them in these methods, they got them from the army program for training soldiers to endure torture. Yes, I mean torture, not enhanced interrogation methods. They had been through some practice tortures, but had never done the real thing. These were the experts.

The Administration was also convinced that we needed these methods, as they were the only ones that the terrorists would react to. These were people who would've been on one of the planes on 9/11, willing to give up their lives for their cause, and the experts figured that scaring them to, almost, death would make them give up their secrets. There was no other way.

I imagine over the next few years, once the economy is back on track, there is going to be a marathon truth conference. I'm not sure that there were that many illegal activities. Well, the Yoo memos on torture, the loss of the pallets of money in Iraq, the Halliburton contracts, I think there might have been some minor infractions there. But for the most part, a lot of the other things, the build-up to the war, the shift in focus from Afghanistan to Iraq, WMD's, Katrina, etc., were just partyhack, unfoucused, inexperienced, people who didn't analyze enough, didn't plan for congingencies, blindly followed orders, and pretty much just acted stupidly.

So, I guess I've disproved my theory. I think the economy screw-up was just another day at the office for the Bush Administration.