Can Ya Skin Griz?

How will President Obama skin cats?

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Can you skin Griz?
Jeremiah Johnson: I can skin' em as fast as you can catch' em.
[Bear Claw runs through the cabin with a huge grizzly bear close behind and jumps out the back window]
Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Skin that one, pilgrim, and I'll get you another! ---Jeremiah Johnson

Mountain man elegance! Skin griz by leading it to the skinner for the skinning because it is chasing the one that wants it skinned. (And who jumps out the rear window) There was true beauty in that scene. Mike the Marine and I laughed so hard about it walking on a mountain trail in Tucson. Then he quoted a long passage from the same movie and did it better than Bear Claw. Mike was Leadership Officer at the Academy.

Bush put idiots and bumblers in positions of power. His pathetic stupidity was that he did not do it by intent. Perhaps President Obama's genius is that he does the same thing with intent.

I question some of the president's choices. Looking beyond the tactic to the strategy there might be some skinning skill that I sincerely hope to see. Some people need to be selected to fill some positions because they have a constituency that needs to be satisfied by immediate expediency. Their constituency however is the cat to be skinned. It is a set up maneuver if you know exactly what a selectee will do.

Ray McGovern points out the rather poor selection made by President Obama here:

One of our senators with fascist tendencies, Kit Bond of Missouri, currently vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has spoken out with special venom against whistleblowers.

At last week's confirmation hearings for Dennis Blair, nominated by President Barack Obama to the most senior intelligence post (director of national intelligence), Bond pressed the nominee on whether he would try to prosecute leakers of classified information.

Falling in nicely with Bond's proclivities, Blair did not disguise his repugnance toward whistleblowers: "If I could ever catch one of those [leakers], it would be very good to prosecute them. We need to make sure that people who leak are held accountable."

Ray also points out that:

On Jan. 29, the House of Representatives voted to strengthen whistleblower protections for federal employees, including those working in national security agencies. The bill's sponsors believe that, if the Senate also approves, President Obama will sign it into law.

Fair warning: the likes of Dennis Blair can be counted on to lobby the Senate strongly against approving this legislation.


A scorpion is gonna do what a scorpion is gonna do. (This is a link)

In this case the scorpion is riding on the back of a constituency.

The whistle blower legislation gets strengthened. People come forward telling truth. Dennis Blair can be counted on to do what Dennis Blair does. Do stupid people ever get the beauty of the movie "The Sting"? Clue: The movie takes place in Chicago.

Ready and waiting for Dennis Blair is a rope that he really wants to grab. The rope has a loop on the end. The execution is swift, extremely public and he twists in the wind. President Obama says:

"I just had to do what I had to do. The law protects whistle blowers. Dennis Blair did not break the law in terms that he can be prosecuted for but neither did he support the law and its intent by his actions. That cannot be tolerated. I therefore announce his immediate replacement: (the person I really intended to fill the position but had to skin two cats with the same stroke to do it)."

Lesson to all scorpions! Scorpions don't learn lessons. They gotta do what they gotta do. In my opinion he appointed a few for a purpose. It does not matter which one grabs the rope first. There are a few at the top that will see the lesson. It is unlikely that one at the top will grab the rope first unless they are incredibly stupid or arrogant.

Can ya skin griz Mr. President?

How did you manipulate the selection of Steele?