Inauguration Trolling, Jenghazi Style

UPDATE: Speaking of war criminals, who does Jenghazi quote criticizing the Administration for national security management failure on 9-11? That's 9-11-2012, silly people, not that other one (whatever it was):

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony yesterday vividly demonstrated that competence is as critical as ideology when it comes to the highest ranks of national security officials.

Former deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams writes, "Having worked as an assistant secretary of state and a deputy national-security adviser, I can report that even in those posts one is entirely swamped by cable traffic and needs a system to cope with it — to be sure that the really important ones get through. From all the available evidence, Hillary Clinton failed to establish such a system for herself, and that management failure is a far more important fact about her tenure than being the third woman to hold the post or having flown more miles than Condoleezza Rice."

P.S. I recommend Charles Pierce's take on all this.

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Let It Bee

I missed Pink Saturday, so here's a makeup post. Also, for all the little right-wingers and neoconmen crying about Paul McCartney, go eff yourselves. This means you, Charles Lane.

"After the last eight years," McCartney quipped, "it's great to have a president who knows what a library is." The audience erupted in laughter.



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Jeffrey Rosen shan't be back

But its author, the noted legal writer Jeffrey Rosen, says he's been burned by the episode, too — enough that he's swearing off blogging for good.

Above all, Rosen says he's drawn a lesson from how his initial essay was treated by people of both ideological stripes. He won't be blogging any more.

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