Worst. Idea. Ever.
By Jason Sigger Thursday Nov 12, 2009 3:00pmTalking Points Memo notes that former SecState Condi Rice and former NSA Stephen Hadley are joining forces to create a" strategic consulting" firm. May I suggest that this is probably an even bigger farce than former FEMA Director Michael Brown's decision to start a consulting firm on disaster preparedness following his stellar performance during Katrina?
I really want to know what clients these two take on, so that I can relentlessly mock their stupidity for hiring the dynamic duo who brought us into the adventures of invading Iraq and Afghanistan without any idea of the resources required or any form of an exit strategy.
UPDATE: In the comments, jenne corrects me:
I think the Cheney "Keep America Safe" Institute is a bigger farce than both Brown and Condi's thingies put together.
OUCH. And touche'
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Warmongers Inc.
while in office and then go on to sell themselves and their connections to whoever pays more, becoming effectively lobbyists.
Inc.
and Condi looks angry.
Run for your lives, people!
Murder Inc. I think that's available. Or maybe Renditions R Us. Our even Waterboard Wearhouse
EPIC FAIL, INC.
Nothing succeeds like failure!
turned out to be resounding success for a few at the thop. And these are the main target audience for "consulting" firms like these.
Success is a neutral concept.
War profiteers are thrilled with the results in Iraq and Afghanistan. These two can help in lobbying for and writing future legislation that will further enrich the MIC. The genius . .
That can say they were part of a team that pulled off the biggest heist in the history of the world?
Remember the surplus whan clinton left office? Now it is more than doubled into the debt! Bush and the republicans wasted more money then any people in the history of the world.
Like Wanda says now they look at Obama like he was zipping up his fly.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that is killing America!
The Carlyle Group
Blackwater/XE
Halliburton
KBR
Defense contractors
CACI
Chevron
Unocal
BP
PR and contact/influence management firms.
at work and thought, "gee, we can too!"
This is just payback time. Now everyone who got waaaaaaaayyyyyy richer under Bush can reciprocate and keep Condi in those tres chic dominitrix boots, and Hadley in whatever it is that does it for Hadley.
to the existing pool of anti-democratic lobbying firms. Now 30,001 give or take a few hundred. The Revolution of 1776 is being bald-facedly undermined. Long live the corporatocracy!!!
It’s not what these consulting firms can tell you, it’s what they can get you – i.e. Gubermint Contracts/Legislation.
The K-Street firms are seldom hired for their “expertise”.
Surely it will be the Palin 2012 PAC?
to freedom on how to keep us free?
My everlasting visual impression of Neo-Condi:
Question: What was the title of the Aug. 6th PDB?
Neo-Condi: (batting her eyes and looking up at the ceiling) I think it was "Bin Laden determined to attack on US soil"
Not even a good liar.
She purposely acted as if it was some obscure report irrelevant to the proceeding, as if she had never seen it before. I remember watching it live, and thinking to myself (I'm an attorney) that the follow-up should have been:
Q: You said you "think it was 'Bin Laden determined to attack on US soil.'" You don't think that was the title -- you know that was the title, correct? Because you've read that report dozens of times, and in fact you reviewed it before coming here today, didn't you?
Alberto could use the work.
Now that's just mean (but funny) - and Gonzo deserves worse.
someone to go for coffee. At this point, he should be happy to get any work.
Like he'd really remember where the cream and sugar went.
to collect wingnut welfare.
Probably Michelle BARKmann will hire them.
Are these f*ckers getting stimulus dollars?
Probably.
I mean in this day and age if a wingnut startup can't start up by stealing from the government who can?
conniving fuckers.
What has Condaleeza Rice accomplished in the last 9 years.
As Sec State, what did she accomplish? Or as National Security adviser. Yeah, she was great at that one.
I've asked that question so many times now. I'm still waiting for a GOPer to answer it.
A striking impression when she was wearing tall black boots and a black leather longcoat - very Nazi.
Oh you said accomplished not accessorized.
Nevermind.
making Michelle Obama laugh??
She had read an intelligence report that an attack on the US was being planned. She ignored it. Then she conspired with others to lie about WMD in Iraq to justify an invasion of that country.
Then she loafed around the world for 8 years accomplishing nothing.
fires. (My apologies to real firemen.)
Not only have none of these people ever admitted to even the slightest error in judgment they actively add insult to injury through self serving tone deaf acts like this.Such breathless arrogance.
And you can bet they NEVER will.
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that can be pursued behind bars.
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have fun!
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"focused on helping U.S. companies doing business abroad -- especially in emerging markets like China, India, Brazil, the Middle East and others."
Very revealing
Iraq and Afghanistan can be on the list too.
UGH!
With one phone call Rice/Hadley Inc can provide the finest military solutions on earth.
Rice/Hadley Inc. emerging markets division has the solution for your problems.
with one of Rice's boots in that screen grab?
Hadley looks like someone from SNL doing a George H Bush impression.
(spit take)
BWAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
consulting Inc.
with Obama costing these days anyway? Being Rahm controls who get's in and who doesn't.
I bet there are a few people that no amount of money would get them in.
I can see this really working well.
You engage them to come up with a strategy...then do the opposite. It's a sure thing.
If they're the kind of people who learn from their mistakes they'd have nowhere to go but up wouldn't they? Mind you I wouldn't want to be the the first client to test that hypothesis.
If they get in over their heads they are some of the ONLY people who can call in "Commander Cuckoo Bananas" or Darth Cheney from the darkside.
So they have that much going for them.
This is like the Pope opening up a Planned Parenthood clinic, or Freddy Krueger studying to become a practicing proctologist. Just stupid. These two should be working a drive-thru together.
Training AA members on the job to be Bartenders.
Kissinger Group, the Scowcroft Group, the Chertoff Group (with former CIA director Michael Hayden).
"Others"
'Guild of Calamitous Intent' from the Venture Brothers cartoon series...
Jason:
The client list has already been published. First it's Blackwater. If it's not them (or their new company name) then it's every company published by the Military or the State department that has taken over for the parts of Blackwater that have been tossed out of various parts of the world for murder, rape, extortion, blackmail, corruption and other assorted WAR CRIMES they claim immunity for.
One of Barak Obama's very first votes...
(as a senator from Illonois in 2006)
was to vote yes for Chimpster's nominee for Secretary of State, Condi Rice...(Yes...Obama actually promoted the bitch!)
(I guess Obama thought she did a great job as national security advisor)
...and I'm sure her consulting firm will be a success.
Jason Sigger should be "relentlessly mocking" Obama!
that was your job. Well, you and Rush anyway.
This is one thing that can't be blamed on Obama.
Rice was confirmed as Bush's Secretary of State in early 2005, at the beginning of his second term; Obama didn't join the Senate until Jan.2007.
The extent of their 'strategic consultation' with a client should be along the lines of: 'We suggest that you have fries with that, sir.'
"we can consider a carpet bombing" if that would work better for your company.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Condoleezza-Ric...
yourself.
(I ain't) like that bitch...
reptiles that's obvious.
How about Italy?
...she went with facebook, instead of (Rupert Murdoch's) MySpace...??
they're doing this because they can't get a day job. I wouldn't hire them.
Thinking about Condi's compassionate performance during the Katrina disaster - when she went shopping - I would sentence her to twenty years selling shoes in a mall in Hackensack.
heaven.
economy's I would have a competitive advantage going with Rice and Hadley okay.
That means the established economies are all tapped out?
Otherwise they would be investing in the U.S.
Does anyone else ever feel shame? guilt? culpability? bad about lying? When you get 'caught,' When you've Fd up? When something's wrong and it really is your fault...I feel like S when I 'fail,' fall short or disappoint in an obligation (we're not even talking starting wars and life and limb) so how can these two and others like them, get up, go out and do it again and again? Does anyone else look to be chivalrous? honorable and just? Are these virtues anymore? Does it matter? Am I a sap for not swindling anything I can get my hands on like all of those in higher places seem to do?
He seems to have feelings...(and he lies alot)! ...this lie is about healthcare...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnDxqboVxMY&fe...
I'd say that Obama qualifies his position by saying something about "Affordable," but now, in their/his offering, they've determined what they feel is Affordable and so they feel they can fine people for not buying into it, now that it's Affordable.
I'm not saying I agree with this 'distinction,' I'm thinking it's more of a 'pivot of words,' than a lie. If something is made that's affordable and you don't want insurance, fine by me, but be prepared to pay full price. You shouldn't be fined.
killers. Wearing suits and an occasional smile.
And where are they looking to get to?
The "Holy Land"
It's something else. They can't be content within themselves.
Can anyone name one positive concrete achievement Condoleeza had that we can remember her by? I can't think of anything. WTF did she do for 8 years???
(Nothing.)
Too bad it wasn't yellow fever.
..inside the Matrix???!! Stupak? Rice? Bush? Whaa-aaa??
expert (n): 1. A person who has screwed something up so badly that they're the only ones capable of running it.
2. (archaic): A person possessing comprehensive knowledge or skill.
The entire right-wing will no doubt regurgitate this as a campaign 'call to arms'. I cannot see them getting any more creative than this. After all, it took them 8 years to just get this 'guiding wisdom' out the door. They certainly have not got enough ROI on their current wisdom. This only true if Palin, or Bachmann end up on the ticket. In that case, all bets are off. No one can predict what might come out of their mouth (probably not what in). Gawd, can you imagine a ticket with Palin/Bachmann (or reversed)? And to top it off, they win. Talking about a seizure machine.
I wonder if it is feeling lonely now for Coultergeist, Maklin and the rest of the right-wings hotties of yesteryear. Today, Palin and Bachmann have taken all the republican men's attention. Watching the guys on FOX, pandering to the two of them is really sickening. The two of them are aware of it, and play up to it There is such a good potential for a knock-down, drag-out, cat-fight among all of these wing-nut airheads. I would pay $100 to watch all of them mixing it up in a 'last woman standing' format. The book makers in Vegas would go crazy.
Well, I guess that is enough day-dreaming for one day.
Kidnapping..torture.. are you listening CONDI? That's the sound of the cell door closing behind you.
They have connections in wash dc they will make a ton of money
in a dumbed down society like America they will reap a fortune for their connections
maybe they can figure out a way to invade Iran and have another war for profits and then call everyone that fights in that war heroes while they make a fortune.
we love our heroes even if the war is immoral and illegal.
and then they can make a ton of lobbyist money from the private contractors like Cheney did.
Rice may have learned a lot from Cheney on how to capitalize on his two wars for profits
good for her Americans love their capitalism she is only doing what capitalism does best, milk the middle class until they become lower class
i.e. mega profits off the sick and needy: pure capitalism and the tea beggars love it that way.
God bless America truly we are a Christian nation and follow the teachings of Jesus as Jesus was a capitalist and advocated making mega profits off the sick and needy.
I remember reading in one of his sermons that he taught a CEO should make 700 million in five years figuring out a way not to insure those with pre existing conditions and to send swine vaccine to the execs at wall street rather than the young children that need it the worst. Jesus was like that.
Also he taught that corporations should utilize child labor in other third world countries to max profits. A true capitalist that the tea beggars love to quote.
I think the Cheney "Keep America Safe" Institute is a bigger farce than both Brown and Condi's thingies put together.
Wouldn't it be nice if they did the consulting from a jail cell in Holland?
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