Master Of Fiskality

It’s late afternoon on a hot and humid Sunday and severe thunderstorms are rolling through the area.  Even though I have been ensconced in an air-conditioned house all day and haven’t dare venture out into the furnace, the situation still puts me in a certain mood that either requires that I play some old Black Sabbath or enjoy a righteous Fisking of some clueless nitwit.  Thank the gods on Mount Olympus: Smitty, CIO of The Other McCain, has provided the rescue remedy for my thunderous mood in a series on lightning Fisks on the lava-lamp philosophizing Peggy Noonan.

A highlight from the downpour:

…My emphasis follows:

The administration’s failure to take impressive action after the spill dinged its reputation for competence. The president’s failure to turn things around Tuesday night with a speech damaged his reputation as a man whose rhetorical powers are such that he can turn things around with a speech.

Who gives a flying French fornication whether the action impresses anyone, Noonan? Leadership is not about running a godforsaken popularity contest. ‘Words Matter’ Does Not Mean ‘Words Affect Matter’. You simply cannot ‘give good speech’ and then expect the problem to fix itself. You especially cannot appear un-serious by taking vacations and golfing. Now is not the time. In a good leader, such tomfoolery would undermine all of the photo ops and Oval Office speechifying. In the case of BHO, stroking on the course while the oil spreads re-inforces the notion that, other than campaigning and tearing pages out of the Alinsky playbook, he’s useless….

Indeed he is…and that’s what makes him so dangerous.

Please so take the time to click here and enjoy the thunderous Fisking and the Motorhead video.

Thank you, Smitty, for the Fisking.  Ye are a Demi-God Of Thunder…