How to ruin your career
As I suggested last week, one good way to do this is to join the Bush administration. James Fallows has presented the dangers of such a gambit a bit more elegantly by asking this non-rhetorical question: "Who will come out looking better by virtue of his or her service in the G.W. Bush Administration. Will anyone?"
He suggests Eric Shinseki--certainly a good candidate. But by the same token, one could suggest Richard Clarke, who's also enjoyed a higher profile and increasing respect since Bush took office. What these men have in common, though, is that their improved reputations come not by virtue of their service in the administration but by their dramatic departures from it.
Recent Entries
del.icio.us
- Testing the Climate: Comment: The New Yorker
- Will Iraq's Great Awakening Lead to a Nightmare?
- The youth climate movement proves itself at Power Shift 2007 | By Brian Beutler | Grist | Muckraker | 08 Nov 2007
- Green groups battle over climate bills in the Senate | By Brian Beutler | Grist | Muckraker | 25 Oct 2007
Articles
Recent Comments
- Juststoppingbytocheckonanoldfriend on McCain and sick veterans
- Juststoppingbytocheckonanoldfriend on Hillary wins?
- A.K. on Hillary wins?
- drew on Experience
- LiNCOLN PARK on Almost daily Corner bashing
- The Phoenix on Why John Yoo should be fired
- Juststoppingbytocheckonanoldfriend on Why John Yoo should be fired
- Matt Zeitlin on Why John Yoo should be fired
- Juststoppingbytocheckonanoldfriend on Hillary wins?
- Juststoppingbytocheckonanoldfriend on Why John Yoo should be fired
- SomeCallMeTim on BP, meet BB
- Brian on Lost in translation
- Stuhlmann on Lost in translation
- JimPortlandOR on Has Iraq made us safer?
- jm on Tertiary effects?
Blogroll
- Andrew Sullivan
- Emily Thorson
- Ezra Klein
- Kevin Drum
- Lindsay Beyerstein
- Steve Clemons
- TAPPED
- The Nation
- TPMCafe
- TPMMuckraker
- Andrew Sullivan
- Balkinization
- Brad DeLong
- Brad Plumer
- Campaign for America's Future
- Dana Goldstein
- DCist
- Election Central
- Emily Thorson
- Ezra Klein
- Feministe
- Feministing
- Glenn Greenwald
- Grist
- Hit & Run
- James Fallows
- Julian Sanchez
- Kevin Drum
- Lawyers, Guns, and Money
- Lindsay Beyerstein
- Matthew Yglesias
- Megan McArdle
- MoJo Blog
- Ross Douthat
- Steve Benen
- Steve Clemons
- Swampland
- Talking Points Memo
- TAPPED
- The Media Consortium
- The Nation
- The Plank
- Think Progress
- Tom Lee
- TPMCafe
- TPMMuckraker
- Unfogged
Comments
"Looking better" is, of course, a value judgement. I suppose a neo-con could nominate Cheney - who will live forever in the valhalla of neo-con war-forever wingnuts.
Ezra nominates: "Paul O'Neill looks pretty good." I agree, but not for his policies, but for the rapid manner he got his book out revealing the scummy insides of BushCo and the way that the Iraq war was on the table long before 9/11.
I think John Dilulio deserves consideration for revealing the exploitiveness and cynicism of the BushCo support for the so-called faith-based initiatives thing.
Verb Cleanup on Aisle 1: James Fallows has presents the dangers of such a gambit a bit more elegantly by asking this non-rhetorical question:" I think the extra 'has' needs to be dropped, or the substitution of 'has presented'. [I'm reading Steven Pinker's just released tome: The Stuff of Thought - Language as a window into human behavior. Chapter 2 (Down the Rabbit Hole) is an extensive discourse on the complexity of verb usage.]
Both Shinseki and Clarke were holdovers from the Clinton Administration.
Sure. But Fallows' question allows for that.
Post A Comment