Leon Panetta: Government Utility Stooge

In baseball there is a utility player. He's the versatile one that can do well in different postions. In government there are sensitive postions that need to be filled but are not required to be done effectively. In fact the person who is apponted as a utility government worker to a sensitive job is relied on not to hit home runs or strike out. He's just put there. He's to take calls from the appointer and in general stay in the dugout.

Hello Leon Panetta from Monterey, California. He was a country boy who was Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff during the Monica Lewinsky scandals and the other Clinton cavalcade of crimes and misdemeanors. After decades in government, Leon stood out to the Arkansas Caligula as the man he wanted as door attendant. Panetta then kicked around Washington doing odd jobs for Bill including Budget work. That's were the money is raised and spent!.

The last couple of years he's been the Director of the C.I.A. Panetta wouldn't ask hard questions of the operatives even if he could. By popular acclaim C.I.A. operatives wanted Panetta for their director. So Obama obliged. What's Obama know? He knows enough not to ask questions also. Now Leon will go to the Department of Defense. He will pack his brown bag lunch and wait for his next utility appointment.

Paul Wolfowitz : Hard Questions " Off The Table"

Look who's back. Former Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz of fake Iraq WMD/al-Qaeda infamy will now become Chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the State Department. He will report directly to our own pickaninny Condi Rice. She's the one that doesn't know what questions to ask let alone have any answers. Wolfy is also an Israeli favorite son. He will be in direct line to negotiate on behalf of Israel and the U.S. -if it's OK with TEl Aviv -with Iran on nuclear issues.

Speaking of questions and answers. Why haven't Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle and others been answering hard questions about their role in the Iraq intelligence affair by the newly democratically controlled congress? Is it because that Reid/Pelosi have also taken that process" off the table" along with impeachment of Bush/Cheney?