As long as Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley aren't going to prison, they might as well stay busy, right?
Word comes to us via TPM that these "two top Bush administration officials, whose reputations for strategic acumen were badly damaged by the disasters of the Bush years, may be about to market their expertise to private-sector clients."
Seems these two Bozoids registered the name oif their firm, the RiceHadley Group LLC, last september in California. I'm thinking that name is just a tad too prosaic for two of the most incomptent public servants we've seen in our lifetimes.
Join me for fun below the fold ...
You'll need a refresher on the backgrounds of Hadley and Rice before you can fashion a new, more appropriate name for their agency.
Here's a little assistance ...
Hadley played the role of Barney Fife over at the National Security Hive before his new business partner left to direct the fog at Foggy Bottom in 2005 and he stepped into her thigh-high leather boots. He was also, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolfowitz Inc., Big Dick's eyes and ears in the West Wing.
Like Andy Bernard, Ed Helms' borderline psychotic sales cretin on the TV show, The Office, Hadley attended Cornell and sang in the glee club. Unlike Andy Bernard, insofar as we know, Hadley has publicly advocated the use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. military as a regular tactic. Leaving no irony unturned, Hadley left the Bush white House to serve with the "United States Institute for Peace."
Hadley helpfully told America recently via the Washington Post that Bush had great compassion and not an ounce of arrogance and that his 2005 and 2006 moves in Iraq were brilliant. No word on whether he also believes that Margaret Thatcher was a real party gal who loved nothing better than sneaking out of her Downing Street digs and singing karaoke at some London pub.
Ms. Rice is the reason I no longer buy any CDs with Yo-Yo Ma on them, having cajoled him into playing a duet with her, a second-rate piano player, in the White House. But, that's not important.
What is important is that publications that insist on referring to her as a "national security expert" don't burst into flames and take down whole libraries with them. But, they continue to do so.
During her checkered tenure with George the Lesser, after an unremarkable career as a lecturer in Soviet studies at Stanford, a dead end path that may or may not have led her to find a more lucrative living selling herself to corporate boards, Rice, thinking she might make a few bucks off pimping it at a later date, named her foreign policy concept, "Transformational Diplomacy."
With history as our guide, we now know she only missed a better descriptive by a few letters with "Hindenburg Diplomacy" the preferred choice.
Of course, everyone remembers that Rice was a football fanatic who dreamed of one day becoming NFL commissioner, but few know she invented a popular game played by aides in the White House. She called the game, "Pin the Tail on the National Security Memo." Evidently, no one won, but there were hundreds of thousands of losers.
The goofy-ass first name, by the way, is some six-martini hallucination of an Italian musical expression ... in case you ever wondered.